Appearing in the written record as early as 2300 BCE, saffron can be traced in foodways around the globe, despite the finicky nature of its harvest.

In Elizabethan England, it seemed like everyone was carrying a sharpened object with the intent to inflict damage.

Want to avoid getting “spaghettified” by a black hole? Steer clear of the smaller ones.

Caricatures of Irish immigrants—especially Irish women—have softened, but persist in characters whose Irishness is expressed in subtle cues.

Minstrel shows were an American invention, but they also found success in the United Kingdom, where audiences were negotiating their relationships with empire.

Well-researched stories from Nursing Clio, Nautilus, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The “compromise” attempted to answer the question of whether the Missouri territory would be admitted to the Union as a “slave” or “free” state.

Black-authored print was central to James G. Birney’s conversion from enslaver to abolitionist and presidential candidate.

There’s a popular (mis)perception that, prior to the rise of modern legal systems, a husband was considered justified in killing a straying wife.

Two significant poetry anthologies deterritorialize home, showing that for Hmong Americans, home can be a process of moving and running despite living in a place.