Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements twinned pleasure and democracy though supporters of these artisanal crusades developed a reputation for elitism.

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.

How should Westerners studying modern postural yoga think about the religious and medical systems in which it developed?

Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.

Soviet dissident memoirs, like their authors, had to cross the Iron Curtain—an iron curtain of meaning and interpretation.

An intellectual powerhouse and dedicated conservationist, Goodall showed generations of humans how to engage with—and take care of—the natural world.

As one family’s story reveals, labor organizing and the development of a co-op for waste collection has improved conditions for precariously employed workers in India.

A story of diversity and integration in early Anglo-Saxon society.