Do we feel more empathy for those living with mental disorders when there's a biological explanation versus a psychosocial one for their condition?

Leonard Bernstein was a famous composer, conductor, and pianist. But by some accounts, his favorite accomplishment was teaching children about music.

Many of our current celebrities are famous for being famous. Charles Dickens, the first self-made global media star, would've had a lot to say about this.

Children's literature hasn't always been about whimsy. This early magazine sought to retrench the elite in the publishing and education industries.

Why Hawaii's nineteenth-century kings were so drawn to Freemasonry.

Some authorities are trying to create fish habitats by cleaning old structures and dumping them at sea. But do these artificial reefs really work?

Conventional wisdom holds that conservatives are ill-suited to or uninterested in a career in personality and social psychology. Is this just liberal bias?

Bezoars, a strange lump formed in the belly of a goat, once were considered a panacea, and worth more than their weight in gold.

In early nineteenth-century England, forging currency was considered to be such a subversive threat that it was punished with the death penalty.

New books and scholarship from UNC Press, The University of Texas Press, and Oxford University Press.