Harry C. Hindmarsh, assistant managing editor of the Toronto Daily Star, knew how to get under Ernest Hemingway’s skin.

Despite policies meant to scatter immigrants from the same ethnic group across the United States, the Twin Cities area became a refuge for LGBTQ Hmongs.

The ivory tower has always been metaphoric, but as Steven Shapin shows, its symbolic value has shifted over the centuries.

Mussolini’s regime isn’t generally associated with a sense of humor, but the Fascist party found comedy useful in certain circumstances.

Most of the nuclear near-misses during the Cold War were kept under wraps, and they still make for unnerving reading in the twenty-first century.

In the early 1900s, women’s magazines helped both women and men grapple with China’s fast-changing world of technology and industrial activity.

Pyrrhotite causes cracks in concrete. But research on how widespread the issue might be has only scratched the surface.

Shafak exposes her terror over motherhood’s potential to devour creativity—a panic she imagines sharing with a parade of literary forebears.

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In early modern Venice, walking was the most convenient mode of transportation for almost everyone. It was also a symbol of strength and nobility for elites.