At a time when respectable women rarely spoke to the public, Anne Laura Clarke was a star lecturer.

The long-lived species' survivor genes are dispersed from the Yukon to southern California, meaning that it has a good chance of weathering climate change.

Well-researched stories from The Root, Slate, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Nearly forgotten today, Jones thrilled audiences with classical music performances at the end of the nineteenth century.

Chemists learned to blow their own glass vessels in the nineteenth century. It definitely beat using wine glasses.

Three hundred years ago, Cotton Mather starred in a debate about treating smallpox that tore Boston apart.

Women began voting legally in Utah Territory in 1870, only to have that right taken away from them later.

If it had been up to national leaders alone, it might have taken much longer.

In the fight against climate change, many underfunded conservation groups depend on volunteers.

To some, the idea that the Earth is warming seems incompatible with how they experience cold weather events.