From asparagus to pâté de fois gras, early modern ice cream was decidedly different from plain chocolate and vanilla.

After the Civil War, white southerners saw the Fourth of July as a celebration of Confederate defeat. Black southerners saw opportunities.

The Supreme Court’s pro-choice decision in June Medical Services v. Russo illustrates the Chief Justice's embattled relationship with precedent.

A 1974 interview on feminism and politics with the first Black major-party candidate for president.

“Someone should have told Buster that it is difficult to derive laughter from the sight of men being killed in battle.”

Before his daguerreotype, the French inventor Louis Daguerre unveiled a new kind of “virtual reality” on a British stage.

Dragon's blood is all the rage now, but where does the scarlet resin come from?

"Sorry" can be more than a mere word when it has real-world consequences.

The airborne particles carry microbes and fungi, and can react with human lung tissue.

At a time when people from the "wrong" places were entering the U.S., missionaries tried to recruit immigrants they found acceptable.