Classical nudes were once reserved for learned men in elite spaces. Then a hotelier hung Nymphs and Satyr in a public bar, shaking up NYC's bourgeoisie.

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

He brought us the term "global warming," furthering our understanding of the ways in which people affect the planet's climate.

In the 19th century, butter production became a valuable way for women to profit off their farms-- and it soon became a major agricultural product.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shocked the establishment by publishing poems and plays under her own name.

In the 19th century, England's working classes frequently used opium. But there weren't laws against the drug until the middle classes started using it.

Why is International Women's Day on March 8th? The answer is much more complicated than you might think.

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.