In one of the first novels written in English, a West African prince, fascinated with navigation, boards a ship for a fateful journey.

Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Flab, begone! Earle Edwin Liederman wanted men to learn his vaudeville-strongman secrets—for a not-so-low price.

They're Satan's minions, no?

Nationalism and environmentalism have a history of pairing in dark ways. What does this mean for international climate negotiations?

Where does class-based hypocrisy over substance use come from? Look to the seventeenth century.

Puerto Rican queers produced theater and film that made them mainstays of the New York underground arts movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

Trees get all the credit. But for biodiversity, look down, too.

The Spiritualist, a newspaper published from 1869-1882, is filled with tales of supernatural phenomena and tips for communicating with the dead.

A psychologist suggests ways of giving young people hope for the future of the planet—and themselves.