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At university and in the field, Darwin trained his scientific thinking as would a geologist, seeking causal explanations for observed natural phenomena.

In the 1880s, Los Angeles began a large-scale project of incarcerating unemployed men whom they viewed as a threat to the vigor of white America.

Moose Javians’ confidence and reputation are rooted in a unique, if fanciful, story, developed after the economic downturn of the 1980s and 1990s.

In many restaurants, front and back of house workers are divided by language and culture in ways that affect the careers of both groups.

Often considered the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague revealed its author’s true feelings about colonial Quebec.

New York’s Long Island has long served as a backdrop for social and political conflicts between the newly arrived and the established residents.

Kurt Weill and his musical collaborators used utopian fantasies to explore the social and political conditions of a fading Weimar Republic.

Scientists say they’ve found the cause of a marine epidemic more than ten years after it started. What took so long?

Johns Hopkins University’s Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of Literary and Historical Forgery shows that humans have been creating fan fiction and fake news for millennia.