William Carlos Williams's hybrid work of poetry and prose both upended narrative conventions and delighted in the wondrous, unifying force of imagination.

An interdisciplinary bibliography exploring the care of the dead and how our final choices are shaped by culture, religion, economics, technology, and war.

Well-researched stories from Undark, Quanta Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The Parthenon embodies the ideals of perfection Classical Greeks sought from architecture. The neighboring Erechtheion offers something else.

Soviet artworks that featured Black Americans tended to trade in stereotypes. The paintings of Alexsandr Deineka were an exception.

Burke and Hare infamously killed people to meet the demand for bodies in Edinburgh’s anatomy schools in 1828. But who remembers the man for whom they worked?

Algeria was a safety valve for the Second Republic: a place to funnel the militant working class to subdue them as colonists and farmers.

In the early twentieth century, hostel organizations helped young people to get out into the country and travel independently—with a bit of overnight supervision.

The history of garbage dumps is the history of America.

An exiled French aristocrat who wrote in German and explored California in the name of Russia, von Chassimo inspired Marx, Offenbach, and even Wilde.