At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was no more dangerous place for a young white woman than the ice cream parlor.

Jewish immigrants and British authorities tried to sell electrification as a matter of business while Palestinian Arabs viewed it as a Zionist nation-building project.

William Henry Fox Talbot’s obsession with protecting his pioneering photographic process doomed his reputation and reduced his legacy to historical footnote.

The year 1893 was a big one for Eagle, Wisconsin. Workers found a huge diamond on the Devereaux farm: sixteen carats, uncut, and now, all these years later, missing.

Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The dominant heteroview of architectural history means we may lose our queer spaces and their histories before we even know they exist.

Evolving from the analysis of representations of women in film, feminist film theory asks questions about identity, sexuality, and the politics of spectatorship.

In the eighteenth century, elite women with a scientific bent often turned to distilling medicines, a craft that helped them participate in experimentation.

Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir were misread, misunderstood, and misperceived by English-speaking readers due to interventions of publishers and editors.

The post-World War II hula hooping craze is back...and this time it's got religion.