They didn't have to do anything besides stand around and look pretty. At least, that was the myth the studios wanted the public to believe.

Movie portrayals of faculty may influence the ideas about professors that students bring to the first day of class.

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The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry never went on strike. He was too tied up working the twenty-four-hour shifts that unions were fighting.

From the moment US Army troops arrived in the South, newly freed people sought ways to gain education—particularly to learn to read and write.

An unlikely source of data about the decline of trout in modern Spain: a book from the 1850s.

Historically, the Supreme Court has held that forgoing vaccines is a threat to public health and therefore beyond the bounds of liberty.

In the nineteenth century, laws in many parts of the country prohibited "undeserving" disabled people from appearing in public.

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.