The mystery surrounding the 1911 theft and subsequent conspiracy theory catapulted the Mona Lisa into the popular imagination.

The founders of Women’s Studies were overwhelmingly white, and focused on the experiences of white, heterosexual women.

The deserts of Namibia are dotted with odd circular bare patches, ringed by the dry desert grasses. They're called "fairy circles." It’s a desert whodunit.

Ever since the publication of White Teeth, Zadie Smith has made a career of writing about the actual experiences behind topics like race and immigration.

For women physicians, WWI was an opportunity for service that highlighted their deeply ambiguous position, as Ellen More explained in a 1989 paper.

A claque is a centuries-old showmanship technique that has been used by entertainers and politicians since the Roman Empire.

How did deregulation, and related ideas about how to run the economy, become so central to American politics? Look to Reagan for the answer.

Like other African-Americans, Jeremiah B. Sanderson was intrigued by the new state of California—a free state that promised economic and social opportunity.

For more than a century, Hollywood has been offering Americans lifestyle advice on how to live better, and the public has been gobbling it up.

The frequency of ethical lapses among executives suggests that there exists an alternate moral framework in corporate culture.