Betty Crocker, the woman who would become America’s most beloved baker, sprang to life in 1921 in an all-male advertising department.

Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has drawn the ire of a new antitrust movement, which argues against the dangers of industry monopoly.

Same-sex crushes and romantic friendships between college-age women were common throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The works of the Canadian painter Caroline Louisa Daly were for years incorrectly attributed to Charles Daly, a municipal bureaucrat turned artist.

The 18th-century "sapphist" gardens of Mary Granville Pendarves Delany were piquant places that expressed same-sex desires.

U.S. law prohibits American leaders from assassinating their counterparts in other nations. But targeted assassination has long been a part of history.

The internet has already transformed how Americans eat; the Amazon/Whole Foods deal is just the culmination of this transformation.

If you’re going camping this summer, will you rough it on a wilderness hike, or relax in a ...

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What brought whales to the city? It’s a tale of water quality, plankton, and an unassuming but vital fish called the menhaden.