By the time L. Frank Baum introduced the world to Dorothy and the gang, he’d already made his name as a shop window dresser par excellence.

Scripted from front-page news, the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper plays were part entertainment, part protest, and entirely educational.

The days of celebrity oceanographers romancing the deep are gone, and maybe that’s a good thing.

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

As more women embraced music as a profession, more men became worried that the world of the orchestra was losing its masculinity.

American racers earned a reputation for deception, and Cuckoo Collins led the pack with an outsize talent for cheating.

The new, hotter normal requires urban planners and city governments to consider heat hazards when creating climate action plans.

Anxieties over the abduction of young men into the French Foreign Legion after WWII reflected West Germany’s concerns about the state of their nation.

The bankers and entrepreneurs of Montana Territory turned to the race track to bolster their reputations.

As more young adults joined the military or worked in wartime industries, England turned to children to fill the growing gap in agricultural labor.