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Starving families were forced to earn aid by carving roads through rock, fields, and mountainsides.

While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.

For more than a century, foreign trips have reflected America's changing role in the world—and presidents' political priorities.

Britain’s textile boom depended on a resource extracted under brutal conditions far from its factories.

An unusual coalition transformed a labor dispute into one of the longest-running consumer protests in US history.

Love poems, political declarations, lyrical confessions, and formal experiments by Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Ocean Vuong, Eileen Myles, and more.

How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.

The city's prosperity grew from a system that trafficked human beings and turned their lives into profit.

It was hailed as a historic discovery—until a trail of clues revealed one of the rare-book world's most audacious scams.

Lord Alfred Douglas’s journey from Hellenism to Catholic mysticism shows how queer Victorians sought meaning and redemption through religion.