If you got sick in the Texas frontier area in the decades before the Civil War, your options were all pretty bad.

Between the medieval and modern world, the marks used to make writing more legible changed from “pointing” to punctuation.

We’re all now too familiar with the words “pandemic” and “epidemic,” but how about “epizootic”?

Even before the founding of Islam, Arabia was home to professional dream interpreters.

Published in 1948 by the artist group Les Automatistes, the Refus Global manifesto challenged Québécois political, religious, and social traditions.

The perennial prairie grass used to cover large swaths of the American Midwest, creating vibrant ecosystems where birds, butterflies, and bison roamed.

Indonesian tombois are understood as men in many public contexts, but their families of origin often treat them as female in some respects and male in others.

Beginning in the Middle Ages, the natural world was viewed as a Christian parable, helping humans to give divine meaning to plants, animals, and the heavens.

The 1895 show purported to show a genuine Southern Black community and demonstrate Black cultural progress in America, from enslavement to citizenship.

Intellectual humility is defined as a willingness to admit you’re wrong. It could be just the idea for our self-righteous times.