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.

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Thomas Jefferson thought whiskey was harmful to the country. Together with enslaved brewer Peter Hemings, he experimented with making less potent drinks.

The beauty parlor became a place of sociability for women in the twentieth century, partly aided by modern technology of hair drying.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity, explains historian Sven Beckert, helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

Leaders of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences voyaged down the Ohio River in 1825–1826, taking academic education on a journey in search of utopia.

Short answer: crime.

The lessons of "low and slow."