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The USDA's requirements for organic labeling make it easier for large agri-business than the smaller farmers you'd think of as "organic."

According to one criminologist, “constructing public space as dangerous to women ... reinforces traditional gender norms which emphasize women as vulnerable."

An oft-overlooked explorer who traversed the globe, driven by his thirst for scientific discovery—and a love of piracy.

Vivid hues in everyday products became eye-popping reality in the early twentieth century.

An archaeological dig turned up eight bottles of mustard powder in one eighteenth-century homestead. Why the condiment love?

“[N]o man can justly doubt, that a childs mind is answerable to his nurses milk and manners.”

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.

In the 1920s, radio was an exciting new mass medium. It was known for providing entertainment, but educators wondered if it could also be used for education.

One scholar chronicles how communities have banded together to help each other with abortion care even when it’s against the law.