In eighteenth-century France, the scarcity and price of flour was the base ingredient for what would become one of history’s bloodiest revolutions.

Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

The detection of two celestial interlopers careening through our solar system has scientists eagerly anticipating more.

The 1901 assassination of US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo revealed the abysmal state of race relations in America.

When technology made music mobile, the American South changed from one type of bootlegging industry to another: copying and selling records.

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The field of Chicanx studies continues to expand, embracing analyses of racialization, gender, sexuality, Indigineity, and trans-ethnic identity.

Astronomer Arthur S. Eddington argued that astronomy should be above politics, even when politics leads to world war.

The government of China has been working to revitalize traditional celebrations that were suppressed after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar.

Despite being famous for his witty analyses of the American South, Twain was proudest of the historical fiction he wrote about France’s legendary martyr.