The word “risk” took on new meaning in the 19th century, when it became a way of understanding the interactions between individuals and economic markets.

Gender studies developed alongside and emerged out of Women’s Studies. This non-exhaustive list introduces readers to scholarship in the field.

A security robot targets the homeless, raising questions about whether private companies can expand their security detail to public spaces like sidewalks.

With recreational marijuana use now legal across Canada, companies are jockeying for market share while bureaucracies struggle to make estimates.

Authorship of Hollywood screenplays is often a complicated matter. But William Goldman was truly a writer in Hollywood.

A Curious Reader asks: What’s the origin of the familiar breakfast-lunch-dinner triad?

Well-researched stories from Slate, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Ancient Egyptians' love of cats developed from an appreciation of their rodent-catching skills to revering them as sacred creatures.

Victor Hugo created visual art that was intuitive, experimental, and inspired by Spiritualism. In other words, nothing like his novel Les Misérables.

In the late 19th century, Elizabeth Campbell helped her astronomer husband run the Lick Observatory and lead scientific eclipse-viewing expeditions.