Phylum away for safekeeping, and have fauna!

A pamphlet published in 1840 advocates a four-pronged approach to public healthcare that sounds remarkably like our own.

Listlessness, boredom, torpor, that "noonday demon" that tempts you away from spiritual connections—that's what was called acedia.

The American bison isn't extinct. But could it ever roam freely across North America, as it once did? Some scholars say it could happen.

When it comes to the U.S. tax system, benefits are often indirect, which makes them more politically palatable to many.

Flappers stole the headlines for their hemlines and wild ways. But were some of them stitching samplers in the meantime?

The 1936 movie Little Lord Fauntleroy broke box office records, only to be toned down and masculinized amid cultural fears of the “sissified” male.

Nothing appealed more perfectly to the Romantic sensibility than the mix of horror and awe evoked by a volcano erupting.

Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray revolutionized childbirth in France through education, building a detailed birthing mannequin.

At a time when questions about women's rights in marriage roiled society, women readers took to the pages of cheap books about husband-murdering wives.