On the fiftieth anniversary of US President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation from office, we offer a collection of stories to contextualize his decision.

Gay rights activist Lige Clarke embraced non-monogamy, LSD, and unconventional spirituality, tying many of his radical ideas to his upbringing in Kentucky.

Well-researched stories from Sequencer, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Narratives about women as gift objects in classical literature show the power dynamics of trade and diplomacy in the early modern Malay world.

Imperialism, experienced as both royal subject and new colonizer, has been a key element in the development, continuity, and disruption of American humor.

The appearance of the vigilante crime fighter known as the Shadow in the writings of Plath, Kerouac, and Baraka reveals a twentieth-century duality.

In 1958, Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai A. Kozyrev claimed there was an active volcano on the Moon. Dutch American astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper begged to differ.

Under Akbar, the Mughal Empire instituted a policy known as sulh-i kull, which called for amicable reconciliation and tolerance toward all religions.

This history of patent leather is as murky as its finish is glossy.

A contemporary archeology project studying the remains of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 reveals the human face—literally—of the conflict.