Settle in to the winter season with verse from Dylan Thomas, H.D., Pushkin, and more.

Nintendo's Mario and Homer's Odysseus have more in common than you might think.

At the end of the 19th century, a Wisconsin woman named Elizabeth “Lizzie” Black Kander tried to help immigrants assimilate, through the food they ate.

Regulations banning performance-enhancing drugs raise as many questions as they answer.

The decision to build a Panama Canal came about because of two lobbyists, one of whom thought a stamp would make a telling point.

The real and supposed resemblances between humans and non-human primates shaped American conversations about race and society.

In September, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced to the world that it would begin licensing women to drive in 2018. Is it all part of a PR campaign?

Deaf servants were favored companions of the Ottoman sultan, and their facility in nonverbal communication made them indispensable to the court.

In the nineteenth century, many Native American children attended “Indian schools” designed to blot out Native cultures in favor of Anglo assimilation.

An interview with scholar and folklorist Gabrielle Berlinger, a professor of American Studies at the University of North Caroline Chapel Hill.