Despite the prevalence of tricks and spooky spirits in earlier years, the American commercial holiday didn’t develop until the middle of the twentieth century.

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As preservationists grapple with crumbling monuments in Brazil and Peru, they’re also confronting the progressive agendas that originally shaped the buildings.

Well-researched stories from NPR, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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We all ponder them when standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store, but why do we even have nutrition labels on our foods?

Song sharks have been a problem for aspiring lyricists nearly as long as there’s been a music industry.

Unofficial cookbooks—handwritten recipes passed from kitchen to kitchen—provided their owners with social and cultural capital within the Soviet system.

The value placed on literacy has changed over time, shifting from a nineteenth-century moral imperative to a twentieth-century production necessity.