As historian Déborah Berman Santana writes, the US is very much responsible for molding Puerto Rico’s economy to begin with.

The history of the wedding dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage.

Art by Mexican "Radical Women" artists capture the turbulent times of the feminist movement in Mexico in the 1970s and still ring true today.

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

Training skilled workers within a school system was a way to sell ordinary workers on the value of the industrial system and thwart union recruiting.

For some families, Apple's assistant Siri has become a crucial bridge between their autistic children and the outside world.

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The recent series of hurricanes has demonstrated, climate change is no longer a nebulous futuristic menace, but an existential threat.

Americans will rail against the government at First Amendment infringements. But the government isn't the only entity that can censor speech or ideas.

Research seems to indicate that human echolocation is surprisingly sophisticated, and may aid a deeper understanding of hearing and sensory perception.