It’s news to precisely no one that college admissions still favor the rich. A number of studies in recent years have explored the process.

At the height of its business operations, in 1923, the Klu Klux Klan was worth roughly $12 million dollars. 

Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned some of the possibilities of today’s Web more than a century before its existence.

Patricia Bell-Scott's new book explores the friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, the poet and civil rights activist. 

The famous "Iron Curtain" speech that propelled us into the Cold War highlights Churchill's near roguish fight to challenge the U.S.S.R.

The spinners' union made it nearly impossible for women to secure reliable work in the cotton mills, instituting their proper role in the workplace.

Bambi has had a pervasive influence on how Americans view nature, and that might not be such a good thing.

Senescence--age-related decline in health and reproduction–is something we take for granted in humans, but among animals it’s not necessarily the norm.

$600,000 dollars have been added to the original fatwa against Salman Rushdie. But Khomeini's declaration may not have been a real fatwa after all.

The West Coast may be implementing an earthquake warning system. This new technology may help ensure accuracy, minimize false positives, & save lives.