Little League baseball as we know it is result of child development theory and practices in America's heartland in the years directly after World War II.

It’s the 150th anniversary of the Alaska Purchase. Why did the Americans want all that ice and why were the Russians willing to sell?

The melodramatic descriptions of "fevers" in old novels reveal just how frightening the time before modern medicine must have been.

What is Scotland, a country and/or nation, or just a region within Great Britain, a piece of the United Kingdom? Let's explore Scots nationalism.

Are the increasing jellyfish blooms in our oceans the result of global temperature changes?

Some early healthcare history shows the effect of insurance plans: lower infant morality and better standards across the board.

Following a winter of exceptional rain, Southern California's desert wildflowers have bloomed en masse. The event is dubbed a “super bloom.”

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What does a successful mom blogger have to do with a character from James Joyce's Ulysses? The way we construct our identities has always been artificial.

Ernst Röhm, the highest-ranking gay Nazi, presents an interesting study in the construction and containment of masculinity by the right.