Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen mined Kieler's life for the plot of his most famous play, The Doll's House.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, political and social activists saw separating sex from marriage and reproduction as an issue of freedom.

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

The first algorithmically generated music came to us in the seventeenth century, courtesy of Kircher and his Arca musarithmica.

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.

Published in 1923, The Prophet became a perpetual best-seller, birthed a genre, and marked the poet as retrograde, sentimental, and florid.

Rising from the ranks of touring comedies and Wild West shows, the American dancer dreamed of a future of light, movement, and metamorphosis.

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Thomas Jefferson thought whiskey was harmful to the country. Together with enslaved brewer Peter Hemings, he experimented with making less potent drinks.