The beauty parlor became a place of sociability for women in the twentieth century, partly aided by modern technology of hair drying.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity, explains historian Sven Beckert, helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

Leaders of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences voyaged down the Ohio River in 1825–1826, taking academic education on a journey in search of utopia.

Short answer: crime.

The lessons of "low and slow."

Mathilde de Morny's commitment to a masculine aesthetic and a non-traditional lifestyle in nineteenth-century France challenged the boundaries of gender identity.

The outer planets’ clouds hide the weirdness within.

With statehood in 1959 came “Aloha Spirit” tourism, turning Hawai‘i’s ethnic diversity into a commodity that benefited both business and US foreign policy.

Critiques of the Thirteenth Amendment have roots in a long history of activists who understood the imprisonment of Black people as a type of slavery.

Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa channeled a grand, glorious chorus of writers—heteronyms, he called them—robust inventions of his unique imagination.