Groups such as Just Stop Oil are calling for change, but their aims need to be considered with respect to more than a reductionist slogan.

The increased use of machines and the division of labor allowed for the production of standardized products. It also made it easier to fence stolen goods.

Between 1920 and the 1960s, tens of thousands of people received treatment with a Spectro-Chrome to address various ailments.

South Asian maids and nannies journeyed to Britain by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with returning colonials.

Archaeopteryx and Hesperornis should be on the lists of any dino bird watcher.

By turns worshipped and reviled, the bird frequently associated with death has appeared in art works for thousands of years. Here’s a short history.

The first exhibition of paintings that would come to be described as Impressionism opened in Paris on April 15, 1874.

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In parallel with the recent shift in political attitudes toward Islamic heritage, India’s most famous monument may need to find a new place in history.

The first person to fly solo, non-stop from Europe to North America, Markham lived life by her own rules.