New lawsuits allege that court officials are jailing people who fall behind on payment of court fees and fines, leading to a resurgence of debtors' prisons.

And it wasn't invented by millenials.

The King Lear people saw for almost two centuries was very different from Shakespeare's.

Judging from his public speeches, Franklin D. Roosevelt--aka FDR--may have been our most religious 20th century President.

How transpeople actively do and undo gender in the workplace.

How could the era have supported such massive herbivores?

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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