A bag of freshly picked potatoes in the field.

Potato Power!

How the potato changed the course of world history…twice.
Mahakala

Buddhist Pacifists at War

In the early centuries of Vajrayāna Buddhism in India, practitioners worked to reconcile the religion’s teaching of nonviolence with the realities of warfare.
New Zealand, North Island, Te Urewera National Park, man, hiker gazing at trees along hiking trail, wilderness, native rainforest, dramatic landscape,

Legal Personhood: Extending Rights to Nature?

The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.
A stylized illustration of a jazz trio including a trumpeter, bassist and drummer

The Barrier-Breaking Ozark Club of Great Falls, Montana

The Black-owned club became a Great Falls hotspot, welcoming all to a music-filled social venue for almost thirty years.
Visitors take photos of the National Stadium, dubbed the Bird's Nest on April 16, 2008 in Beijing, China.

Building the Olympic Games

A close connection between architecture, athletics, and the urban fabric is central to the idea of the modern Olympic Games.
A Punjabi-Mexican American couple, Valentina Alarez and Rullia Singh posing for their wedding photo in 1917

The “Mexican-Hindus” of Rural California

Anti-Asian immigration restrictions led male Punjabi farm workers in California to marry Mexican and Mexican American women, creating new cultural bonds.
A scoreboard bearing a quote by founder of the modern olympics Pierre de Coubertin, at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Wembley Stadium, London, 29th July 1948. The quotation reads: 'The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well'. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4582 - Olympic Games - pub. 14th August 1948 (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics

Pierre de Coubertin harnessed an enduring fascination with ancient Greece to create a new institution that blended national pride with global unity.
Lajpat Rai and W.E.B. Du Bois

Black Freedom and Indian Independence

Activists including W. E .B. Du Bois in the United States and Lajpat Rai in India drew connections between Black American and Indian experiences of white rule.
A map outlining the Proclamation of October 7, 1763, overlaid with a portrait of King George III.

Real Estate and the Revolution

When George III issued a proclamation forbidding settlement west of a line running through the Appalachian Mountains, colonists decided they’d had enough.
A watercolor Jersey Devil depicts the popular and well known legendary character that has haunted the Jersey Pine Barrens since colonial times. The Jersey Devil is described as having the head and neck of a horse with the horns of a bull, wings of a bat, tail of a serpent, talons of an eagle and cloven hooves of a goat.

Birthing the Jersey Devil

For centuries, a fork-tailed mythical creature that lurks in the pinelands of the Garden State has served as a reminder of the horrors that result when reproductive freedoms are destroyed.