Well-researched stories from the New York Times, Vox, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

As one activist said, “If our story is to be told, we will have to write it and photograph it and disseminate it ourselves.”

Nineteenth-century biologists employed some outrageous arguments in order to keep women confined to the home.

The 1896 version of crime sensationalism also taught the victim-blaming lesson “Stay Sexy, Don’t Get Murdered.”

In the mid-nineteenth century, the law was ambiguous.

In one river town in central Illinois, a wetlands called N— Lake was scapegoated for destructive flooding.

For some sand-dwelling plants, stickiness is a defense tactic that keeps predators at bay.

In a controversial letter, the versatile author expressed frustration with critics of segregation.

Feminist scholars refer to the “intensely communal, queer, and playful nature” of DIY LGBTQ conception, but Fertility, Inc. is another story.

A rising tide of violence and bigotry in the 1970s infected the British music scene. A group of musicians organized to resist.