Downton Abbey's popularity in America may be due to the British culture industry's manufacture of the myth of England itself. 

From location disputes to the type of memorial itself, the fight over how to best respect Lincoln's legacy eventually led to the Lincoln Memorial.  

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 USSR.

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.