Nixon targeted Foreign Service officers who served in China in the 1940s as communist sympathizers and "fellow travelers." Then he opened trade relations.

The reality of wild rice defeated the best efforts of Europeans to domesticate it.

100 years ago, Sylvia Beach, the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, opened the doors to her legendary bookstore, Shakespeare & Co.

“Trapping was not a ‘business for profit’ among the Dakota but primarily a social exchange,” one scholar writes.

In nineteenth century America, young women took to studying botany—a conjoining of interest, social acceptance, and readily available schooling.

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like The Birth of a Nation.

One group of researchers found distinct differences among songs from groups of humpback whales that are geographically isolated from each other.

Intended to protect consumers from unscrupulous quackery, a nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising proved to be a double-edged sword.

The first message sent through the ARPANET was “LO.” It was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the network crashed after the first two letters.

Inspired by the legendary Wright Brothers, local brewers on the Outer Banks of NC are harnessing wind power for their pints.