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Take southern California, for instance.

The other side of the Renaissance man, known today for promoting autocratic power.

What begins as a magical escape from the horrors of plantation life soon turns into a spine-chilling testament to slavery’s dehumanizing effects.

Artists Shannon Finnegan and Andy Slater talk accessibility, transdimensional hearing, alt-text as poetry, sound descriptions, and Instagram captions for McSweeney’s Audio Issue.

The crazed caricature of genius was largely inspired by now-debunked late-Victorian ideas about how species change.

As women entered the white-collar world, experts told them to dress like men, without being too threatening.

The voters one scholar studied didn't necessarily think they would benefit materially from being on the winning side. But turnout was over 90 percent.

Olivia Rodrigo is only the latest star to emerge from the wonderful world of Disney.

Photographers and writers hired by the US government presented the foodways of the South to a wide audience.