Catherine II ruled Russia for many years. She also wrote her own memoirs, in a time when such writing was considered inappropriate for a monarch.

In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.

This shy, strange-looking, nocturnal mammal has been poached nearly to extinction.

Rapper 21 Savage’s deportation battle highlights an important aspect of contemporary immigration policy that is often overlooked.

A fiery advocate against gender discrimination, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s radicalism reveals itself in her argument for the Equal Rights Amendment.

Sometimes finding the stories of marginalized populations demands reading between the lines.

The fact that people can use “literally” about things that can’t possibly be factual may literally make your blood boil.

When Audre Lorde wrote from St. Croix that Hurricane Hugo would not be the last natural disaster of its scale, she was pointing to human failures.

French filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché was the first female film director, and renowned as an innovator in the field. Then she moved to Hollywood.

Dressed in a petticoat and bonnet, Mary Anning climbed precarious cliffs to find prehistoric fossils.