Wallace wouldn't have become a famous naturalist without help from colonial networks and hundreds of locals, including his indefatigable Sarawak servant, Ali.

Guru Maharaj Ji, the teenage leader of the Divine Light Mission, was poised to usher in a new era. His huge Houston gathering proved to do anything but.

Long cherished by Indigenous peoples for its medicinal and stimulating properties, guaraná remains a key element of Brazilian identity.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen mined Kieler's life for the plot of his most famous play, The Doll's House.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, political and social activists saw separating sex from marriage and reproduction as an issue of freedom.

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

The first algorithmically generated music came to us in the seventeenth century, courtesy of Kircher and his Arca musarithmica.

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.

Published in 1923, The Prophet became a perpetual best-seller, birthed a genre, and marked the poet as retrograde, sentimental, and florid.

Rising from the ranks of touring comedies and Wild West shows, the American dancer dreamed of a future of light, movement, and metamorphosis.