Tumblr may be obsolete for the first generation or two of Internet users, but Gen Z has taken it on as a platform for representation online.

In Early America, some prestigious residents advocated for the replacement of cane sugar, supplied by enslaved workers, with maple sugar from family farms.

An 1899 issue of The Monthly Record reports the death of an acclaimed Shakespearian "convict scholar," who served over 20 years on a life sentence.

For many women, wearing the hijab was—and is—an element of piety, but it's been coopted into a political symbol.

Confronted with discrimination and violence, gangs evolve and serve members differently, even when patterned after existing groups.

Well-researched stories from Psyche, The New Yorker and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

A jarring dose of humanity comes with the 1979 poem by Reva Walker at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women.

The mobilization of housewives in 1950s California echoes through US national politics in the twenty-first century.

The participation of white mothers in the "bitter robbery" of Indigenous children from their families was a cruel irony in the colonialist programs of the US and Australia.

Temperature fluctuations throughout the years are affecting bird migration and mating, with sometimes violent results.