Considerations of climate change and environmentalism have for too long paid no mind to where Black people live and in what conditions.

How did an oleoresin produced by insects in Asia become a standard part of European furniture manufacture and conservation?

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The first African American architect licensed in the state of California, Williams blazed a trail to the (Hollywood) stars.

The Jain Śvētāmbara Terāpanth sect began as an ascetic discipline, but it has increasingly emphasized physical health over renunciation of the body.

Once a celebrated travel writer, Holman struggled to find a publisher for his books thanks to a Victorian reluctance to witness his disability.

A fierce opponent of censorship, Gershon Legman helped legitimize the academic study of erotic folklore as manifested in jokes, limericks, and songs.

The early plastic called celluloid was made of nitrocellulose and camphor. It made for spectacular pictures. It also made for spectacular fires.

In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

As the tobacco and electrical industries demonstrate, US corporations have a history of sowing doubt for profit.