The evolution of the way TV news looks has much to do with principles of modernity and design.

The ad campaigns behind household products emphasized the seriousness of housework.

A different side to affirmative-action: How legacy admissions maintained white Protestant student enrollment at elite universities.

Three affirmative-action cases set precedent for the Supreme Court as they make a decision on Fisher vs. University of Texas.

How a union built integrated affordable housing in early 1960s San Francisco.

During Prohibition, industrial-grade alcohol cost hundreds of American lives. The Coolidge administration encouraged its circulation.

Why do we celebrate the beginning of the New Year on the first of January? Julius Caesar, mostly.

Whether or not Americans approve of government spending depends strongly on how the issues are framed.

By using the body to resist and respond to violence and social injustice, protesters literally embody their cause.

The European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that Switzerland violated Turkish socialist party chairman Doğu Perinçek’s freedom ...