The way Americans metabolized the global threat of nuclear war has had lasting effects on how we think about our newest global threat: climate change.

The cities of Dresden and Hamburg saw their green spaces decimated by WWII, but each city grew back its trees in a very different way.

Solar and wind power are great renewable options, but to store the energy that's produced, we're going to to need bigger batteries.

After a series of traumatic wars, the U.K. and the U.S. embraced a trend of "boyification." Scholars theorize it was an attempt to recover lost innocence.

In the nineteenth century, enterprising toymakers developed a novel way to bring theater into the home.

Three poems by writer and musician David Berman.

And what does it mean that Iran has enriched uranium past the 4.5% level?

"Carpe Diem" doesn't actually mean "seize the day." The fact that we understand it that way suggests we are more traditional than we like to admit.

Magellan’s voyage in search of the “Spice Islands” was marked by storms, sharks, and scurvy—plus multiple attempts at mutiny.

In the 19th century, farm loans changed from a matter between associates into an impersonal, bureaucratic exchange.