A wave of rent strikes in the 1960s showed that poor residents of New York City had deep concerns about housing. The media, however, focused on big rats.

Stephen Vincent Benét’s lost epic “John Brown’s Body” envisions a nation sutured together after the Civil War, but fails to reckon with the war’s causes.

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What you learned about the diseases that decimated Native communities is probably wrong.

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In the 1960s, a group of artists started experimenting with choreography based on ordinary movement and improvisation. Now your living room is the stage.

Finding a hobby that doesn't undermine your 19th-century masculinity can be tough.

Built by a fascist-turned-communist writer in the 1940s, it belongs to no one architectural style. But the views!

What's a masculine lesbian to do when her hair starts getting too long? Look at history for inspiration.

Secular Jewish psychologists like Boris Sidis criticized the positive optimism of Protestant-centered psychology.