Election days used to be raucous affairs, with individual votes sometimes cast orally for all to hear.

Many parents just assume their kids will turn out heterosexual. That's part of heteronormativity.

Segundo de Chomón made “trick films” that experimented with color and temporality, influencing the surrealist work of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.

If successful, Amy Coney Barrett would become the 7th current Supreme Court justice to be raised a Catholic, and the sixth conservative Christian.

Frank London Brown’s 1959 novel, which presents a powerful story of white supremacist hatred, has been selected for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

Heliconias can distinguish among pollinators like hummingbirds and respond selectively to their visits.

The author of the preamble to the Constitution spent years in Europe as a businessman, diplomat, and connoisseur of the pleasures of the flesh.

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Way before there were stans, there were slans. Too bad about their fascist utopian daydreams!

Research shows that building collisions take a staggering annual toll on North America's bird population.