Foreigners fighting for Ukraine may call to mind the International Brigades that fought in defense of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

Despite claims of precision strikes and the proliferation of smart bombs, the number of civilians killed in war appears staggeringly high.

Portia K. Maultsby documents the course of African American music, tracing the histories of the sounds alongside the histories of the people who made them.

Today's lighthearted Easter tradition traces its roots to the witch trials and conspiracy theories of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Freeing a prisoner—a gesture of generosity and benevolence—may have been a way to bring together a fractured spiritual community.

These collective rituals of death brought meaning and identity to urban, working-class youth.

Russia's rise as an imperial power was built on intercontinental expansion, and a mission of "civilizing, protecting and educating" the conquered.

The sport of Newcomb ball was created by Clara Gregory Baer two years before volleyball. Now forgotten, it's a good bet it lives on in the gyms and beach courts of today.

In Early America, some prestigious residents advocated for the replacement of cane sugar, supplied by enslaved workers, with maple sugar from family farms.

The mobilization of housewives in 1950s California echoes through US national politics in the twenty-first century.