The Jefferson Davis Highway was project of the United Daughters of the Confederacy intended to portray Davis as an American hero.

Even a limited nuclear war would throw enough soot into the atmosphere to block sunlight and lower global temperatures by more than one degree Celsius.

The Wall Street Journal reports that property developers are pushing to allow public drinking on city streets, hoping to encourage a “lively atmosphere.”

African women, always a minority in the slave trade, often had to find their own ways of rebellion against slavery if they could.

Climate scientists tend to be optimistic and have faith that humanity can engineer our way out of the climate change we’ve created.

Protectionist laws favoring producers of butter meant that getting margarine in Wisconsin was no easy feat.

College students are notoriously strapped for cash. For some, however, that youthful poverty becomes actual homelessness.

A scholar analyzes two of Barack Obama's commencement speeches, using West African nommo oratory as a guide.

If hunger is moral purity, self-care a purchasable commodity, and wellness a stand-in for thinness, what does health really mean?

How Boston has marked the controversial trial and alleged crimes of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants executed for murder.