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?

COVID-19 is disproportionately deadly among people of color. Long-term environmental racism could be a major factor in this disparity.

The fight against locust swarms allowed the Soviet Union to consolidate power over neighboring regions.

In her new book, Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins takes a deeply personal look at the effects of the Great Migration.

Rosenwald schools, named for a philanthropist, were funded mostly by Black people of the segregated South.