Terence McKenna was an evangelist for the use of psilocybin and other mind-altering drugs, as a way to transcend and escape “untrammeled rationalism.”

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Current attempts to correct historical discrimination by local and regional offices of the USDA have been met with charges of "reverse discrimination."

Can using forest harvests for biofuel be carbon neutral? A case study of the Northern Forest appears to say "no."

Keckley’s decision to write about her employers from the viewpoint of a household laborer—she was seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln—enraged audiences.

As the HBO series The Gilded Age suggests, charity allowed wealthy women to play a visible role in public life. It was also a site of inter-class animosity.

Sammy Davis Jr.'s conversion to Judaism in 1960 was met with skepticism, derision, and, yes, jokes by the members of the groups he claimed and embraced.

The editors at JSTOR Daily have compiled their favorite pieces highlighting the many overlooked contributions of women in STEM.

Well-researched stories from the 19th, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Women pilots were seen as oddities, opportunists, and "too scatterbrained" to fly. The 1929 All-Woman Air Race set out to change that.