The U.S.A.'s founders focused on the rights of white men to vote, own property, and govern. The idea that women should have similar rights came later.

Arthur Munby was an upper-class man of letters who "collected" working class women, including his servant Hannah Cullwick, whom he married in 1873.

During the Korean War, North Korea suffered widespread epidemics of typhus and smallpox. The Communist party blamed US germ warfare.

One of the many misconceptions about the ancient megalodon is that it was an extinct, larger ancestor of the great white shark.

In the 1950s, Walt Kelly's comic strip about a cute opossum named Pogo was syndicated by over 450 newspapers. It was also frequently censored.

The WHO’s definition has been the target of criticism in the medical literature since its first appearance in 1948.

For decades, British and American gardeners avoided magenta flowers. The color had associations with the unnatural and the poisonous.

Since World War I, the connections between pest control and war have been scientific, technological, institutional, and metaphorical.

Dating apps and services have been accused of cheapening the dominant Western conception of love. One scholar begs to differ.

In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.