What's the history of the vicious The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

Contrary to the widespread idea that white missionaries stamped out the sport, evidence suggests that Native Hawai‘ians never stopped surfing.

How the meaning of Blackness, and the social construction of race, varies across era and region.

In the 1920s, some people thought that the new invention of radio would make American farmers less "backward."

File under: “don’t try this at home.”

Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.

In Maya culture, rulers used stingray spines in bloodletting rituals. Researchers have ideas about why.

Using aluminum as a case study, a geographer shows how wartime "commodity chains" can devastate the Earth.

Emmett Till was a boy of fourteen when he was lynched in Mississippi. The press would influence public opinion, and the outcome of the trial.

Feminists supported universal childcare as a means of allowing women to advance in the workforce. But did this argument focus mostly on white women?