The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.

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Indigenous peoples' techniques to manage and benefit from fire are threatened, even as wildfires burn more frequently and intensely.

Rebellion against invasion triggered a series of events that would take a "swift and violent toll" on a Caribbean island's native biodiversity.

Two scholars compared coming out experiences in the U.S. and France. The differences may speak to shifts in everyday life for LGBTQ people.

Queer people have always had a particular relationship with history. It's only lately that archival silences have been challenged, and overcome.

Casta paintings of the eighteenth century tried to show who was who in New Spain. But reality was much more complicated.

Posters are part of a tradition of object-based learning at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Religion once held sway over how people thought about disability. How did that change with the rise of secularism?

In the era of Louis XV, it was fashionable to drench oneself in “animal scents.”