Flaunting a massive collection of books did not start with work-from-home videoconferences.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began during World War II to prevent the spread of malaria to troops stationed in the South.

German expressionism--imported to Hollywood by Jewish exiles--brought a lasting tradition of shadows, duality, and mirroring to mainstream American cinema.

Scientific racism. Paternity tests. And mass tattooing, just in case of nuclear attack.

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”

The charivari (or shivaree) was a ritual in which people on the lower rungs of a community called out neighbors who violated social and sexual norms.

What two scholar-artists learned from taking ninety books on a very, very long walk.

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When people with opinions and a platform rant about bad grammar, they're not helping, write two English professors.

Baseball's creation myth is bunk, and historians have shown how important cities were to the game's development. But it was still a rural passion.