The US Sanitary Commission is credited with saving lives during the Civil War, but its leadership hoped it would be remembered for advancing racialized science.

France’s notorious disregard for washing gradually changed as military authorities and public schools promoted a modern regime of cleanliness.

Long before India decriminalized homosexuality—in September 2018—the short story "Lihaaf" sparked outrage and a lawsuit for its depiction of same-sex, intergenerational intimacy.

The sisters were not only a singing duo, they were successful businesswomen and advocates for Black-owned enterprises in the entertainment world.

In April 2010, representatives from 140 countries gathered in Bolivia to outline an explicitly anti-capitalist, decolonial agenda for the sake of the planet.

Richard Potter, the first American-born ventriloquist and stage magician, learned his trade after being kidnapped and abandoned as a child in Great Britain.

As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery...consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

In medieval Ireland, ships that sailed across the sky were both marvelous and mundane.

Barbie is having a(nother) moment. Researchers have been studying the famous doll for years.

Using humor to mask and normalize hatred and bigotry has a long, ugly history.