Can purchasing a doll be a revolutionary act? The franchise makes an effort to connect its characters with the realities of American history.

Influential singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at age 82. Re-surfacing some Cohen-related materials on JSTOR.

Did you drink the Kool-Aid? The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.

Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow on November 11, 1821. While he also wrote short stories and journalism, the politically-active ...

The anti-art art movement Dada was born in 1916 in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire. 

In the mid- to late nineteenth century, people showed off their infants at baby shows.

Though now celebrated for its modern, minimal design and contemplative space, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was once the subject of heated debates.

In The Baby-Sitters Club, each girl has agency.

Is it true that "nasty" is more likely to be applied to describe women than men?

As historians continue to interrogate slavery’s lasting reverberations, narratives produced by slaves themselves have become a kind of ...