The idea of a general strike is to shut down all but essential services in a city, region, or nation. America has had its share. A Briton invented the idea.

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The Francis Picabia retrospective at MoMA is wowing museumgoers again with his ever-shifting, always challenging art.

What is the point of menopause? Evolutionarily speaking, why do female humans go through menopause and then live for many more decades?

The “Saturday Evening Girls" was a Progressive-Era club that afforded urban, Jewish and Italian girls and women a chance at coveted social mobility.

In 1917, a Progressive education reformer surveyed the high school landscape and looked to the future. His grand plans still haven’t come to fruition.

Rene Carmille has been called the first ethical hacker for sabotaging the computerization of data about French Jews during World War II.

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The bombing of Dresden, Germany, which began February 13, 1945, was once viewed as a historical footnote. Until Slaughterhouse-Five was published.