The sport of competitive walking touched on social concerns such as debt and poverty, fitness and fame, but it also found support in the temperance movement.

Well-researched stories from Aeon, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

An interview with Caitlin D. Wylie, a social scientist who analyzes “behind-the-science work” to understand how knowledge is produced and who produces it.

Senator Joseph McCarthy built his reputation on fear-mongering, smear campaigns, and falsehoods about government employees and their associates.

In the late nineteenth century, Japan adopted Western-style vacation, but not everyone was on board with the new leisure practices.

In the 1950s, science in North Korea was presented in a way that fired children’s imaginations and encouraged youth to develop ideas that served the state.

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations.

From Grimaldi piracy in the Medieval era to the high-stakes gambling tables of the present, Monaco celebrates its ties to science, religion, and royalty.

The environmental justice movement may look to the past to determine how to move forward during times of austerity.

Citizen scientists are drawing on personal experience to help researchers create new plant-based fermented foods and maximize their health benefits.