A burgeoning acceptance toward families with only one child is finally starting to creep into society at large, eliminating the mythical stereotype.

Many 18th-century households included not only relatives and slaves, but also indentured servants, people sold into bondage for a specified length of time.

How faculty and students of color are marginalized by their own institutions.

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Ian Fleming may have understood international relations better than academics.

Human chimeras are surprisingly common and a wonder of the human reproductive process.

The solution isn't minimizing poverty or supplying more contraceptives.

Like the Jews, the Romani were victims of the Nazi's ideology of race.

Research suggests that the apatosaurus' tail was an impressive appendage.

The Nazis weren't the first looters of European art treasures.