After World War I, it looked like President Wilson's ideas about preserving democracy would mean decolonization. But the age of empires wasn't quite over.

Critical race theory has become a focus of conservative legislation, often with little understanding of its meaning and history.

Swing for the bleachers with these awesome lantern slides from the early years of professional baseball.

There has been a spike in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 crisis, according to a recent report from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

The forecast has been bad for domesticated cacao. But some environments in Peru might hold the key to the future of the world's sweet tooth.

Well-researched stories from Wired, Prospect Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Even though they occupied much of South Asia, British civil servants and their wives wanted a taste of home. Strawberries, for instance.

From the colonial period to the end of the US Civil War, the rattlesnake sssssssymbolized everything from evil to unity and power.

Women were the first computer programmers. How, then, did programming become the domain of bearded nerds and manly individualists?

A very nineteenth-century-science problem: lots of decaying avian specimens.