How one pair of researchers used game theory to predict the sneaky, underhanded behavior of microbial competitors.

At the start of World War I, young working-class women swooned for men in uniform, leading middle-class women to form patrols to police public morals.

Imagine tourists flocking to a famous beauty spot, only to turn around and fix their eyes on its reflection in a tiny dark mirror.

Poems by Black poets, including Morgan Parker, Hanif Abdurraqib, Simone White, Terrance Hayes, and more.

Freedomways, the African American journal of politics and culture chronicled the civil rights and Black freedom movements starting in the early 1960s. Read it on JSTOR.

Of early modern medicinal monopolies and the nature of a "true" product of empire.

A political scientist suggests that the right-wing violence of recent years might be a new current in a longer history.

Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, Politico, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Formal education in language and music is important for children, but as one scholar found, so is their own play involving gesture, slang, and pop songs.

"Acting presidential" can mean fulfilling expectations that have been shaped by TV and the movies.