Less about morality than about rights, the Mormon War of 1858 hinged on the issue of polygamy, pitting a Utah community against federal authorities.

The annals of competitive eating contests are full of more than just hot dogs.

Savvy observers, immigrant restaurateurs operate as amateur anthropologists who analyze their potential customers to determine how to best attract them.

Well-researched stories from Big Think, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.

The modern term “economics” comes from the Greek word “oikonomia,” but the ancient Greeks had a very different way of thinking about material life.

Unlike in the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe, the arrest of Jewish people was largely in the hands of ordinary policemen in France, especially in Paris.

Many amateur “fan fiction” writers on the Chinese internet use real history as a canvas for time-travel stories that often break the fourth wall.

Once popular across the United States, jai alai lives on in American sport culture mostly thanks to its history as a legal option for gambling.

Because of its political structure, Washington became a test case in federally mandated laws that enabled racially discriminatory policing of public space.