For Puritan New England, picture books were dangerous. But the Enlightenment, by way of John Locke, made illustrations more acceptable in the classroom.

Censorship isn't just redacted text and banned words. What happens when censorship is furtive, flying under the radar as much as possible?

Supermarkets represented a major innovation in food distribution—a gendered innovation that encouraged women to find sexual pleasure in subordination.

What would have been considered a dystopian level of surveillance a mere twenty years ago has now become the norm. Why don't internet users care?

What does "boredom" even mean? As both a word and a concept, boredom is not a universal phenomenon but a historical construction specific to our times.

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Being a fitness instructor isn’t a very highly-paid job, but, researchers found that the job provides other rewards for the people who love it.

The colonial Dutch tradition of making social calls on New Year's Day in New York was no match for 19th-century-style partying.

On a diet or cleanse in the new year? You're continuing in the very American tradition of self-perfection.

Monopoly's real inventor was Lizzie Magie, a progressive Georgist, who believed that land should be collectively owned by all.