Throughout history, people tried to protect spaces from evil with apotropaic marks, ritual concealments, and other charms.

If thieves’ cant—a language known only to criminals—was the Devil’s cabinet, bourgeois society couldn’t help but peep inside.

Why was the Weather Underground group labelled as a terrorist organization, while the KKK was not? A brief look at the history of domestic terrorism.

Author Shena McAuliffe describes how she used JSTOR to research her debut novel, The Good Echo.

Nearly all American tea rooms were owned by women. They often opened up rooms in their homes or set up tables in their gardens.

A suffragist searching for a heroine found Sacagawea and lifted her out of historical obscurity.

An integral part of FDR's New Deal was the Civilian Conservation Corps, which focused on environmental conservation work.

Despite the twelve volume herbarium she created, this seventeenth-century scientist earned little recognition. 

Well-researched stories from Quanta, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

What you were taught in elementary school about Native Americans not owning land is a myth. The truth is much more complicated.