Can compassionate release laws solve the problem of the nearly 200,000 people aged 55 and older who are incarcerated in America?

Busing as a means used to end school segregation remains controversial. Does it work? The case of Norfolk, Virginia, is highly instructive.

Over 20 countries have high-speed train travel, carrying 1.6 billion passengers a year. The United States is lagging behind.

Tsantsas, or shrunken human heads, remind us of how museums have often been founded on a violent trade in indigenous culture.

A treasure trove of queer publications from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s are now available through Reveal Digital’s open access collection "Independent Voices."

For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who had freed themselves from slavery.

In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.

As the need for ranch workers has dwindled, the iconic status of cowboys has continued to grow.

Fritz Haber was a chemist who made discoveries that improved global agriculture… but also helped spawn the modern era of chemical warfare.

When temperance advocates won the ban on absinthe in 1915, many of them saw it as the first step in a broader anti-drinking campaign.