Can empirical data about human behavior make the “soft” sciences more like the “hard” ones? New interdisciplinary fields are voting yes.

The St. Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving intact European book. Some time around 698, it was slipped into the coffin of a saint.

Temperatures and droughts have spiked at much higher rates in parks than elsewhere.

This grassroots movement brought occupational health to American labor, paving the way for the creation of OSHA.

Well-researched stories from Public Books, NPR, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Cotton Mather and other 17th-century American writers created a genre all their own: Puritan gallows literature, which both terrified and edified.

Do we feel more empathy for those living with mental disorders when there's a biological explanation versus a psychosocial one for their condition?

Leonard Bernstein was a famous composer, conductor, and pianist. But by some accounts, his favorite accomplishment was teaching children about music.

Many of our current celebrities are famous for being famous. Charles Dickens, the first self-made global media star, would've had a lot to say about this.

Children's literature hasn't always been about whimsy. This early magazine sought to retrench the elite in the publishing and education industries.