White American women have long played significant roles in maintaining racist practices. One sociologist calls the phenomenon "social mothering."

Since the 1950s, scientists have been proposing supernovae as catalysts for mass extinctions. But can it be proven?

The curious, forgotten connection between William Faulkner and Charles de Gaulle.

Efforts to fill the periodic table raise questions of special relativity that “strike at the very heart of chemistry as a discipline.”

In early modern Europe, various sorts of winds were associated with illness and even death.

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Fluoroscopes were used in shoe stores from the mid-1920s to 1950s in North America and Europe -- even though the radiation risks of x-rays were well-known.

When Technicolor changed the face of the film industry, it also altered the cosmetics industry, sparking the great Hollywood Powder Puff War of the 1930s.

New books and scholarship from Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and the University Press of Colorado.

New research shows that people with depression use absolute words, such as "always," "nothing," or "completely," more often than others.