Studying the artist's paintings may reveal more about the her early trauma and subsequent pain than suspected.

In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam. But, one historian argues, in many cases these “cross-dressers” were probably people who we would identify as transgender today.

Extinct in the wild, the Franklinia tree is still cultivated in botanical gardens, private homes, parks, even cemeteries. It's also got an interesting Revolutionary-era backstory.

Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young.

In 1874, popular writer Henry Hooper called the hotel clerk “the supercilious embodiment of Philistinism.” What accounts for the nineteenth century hate?

Reconstruction is one of the least-known periods of American history, and much of what people think they know about it may be wrong.

When an axolotl loses a limb, it regrows, and nary a scar remains. But this incredible creature is on the brink of extinction.

In such a pristine landscape, even a few thousand people can have a major ecological impact.

Americans have tuned their radios for psychological insight and edification since the dawn of the medium.

Sometimes scientists end up turning into inventors throughout the course of their research. Three cases in point.