Though so-called bawdy house riots were common in seventeenth-century London, the disorder of 1668 revealed the city’s deep political and religious resentments.

The women sewing machinists of the Dagenham plant received a raise after they went on strike against Ford. But was this a victory?

Ash from burnt wood, weeds, bracken, and kelp helped fuel the Industrial Revolution.

In the 1960s, young disabled people found each other at camps and colleges, creating ever-expanding networks for challenging discrimination.

In sixteenth-century Spain, veiling allowed women to move freely through cities while keeping their identities private.

At the height of circus animal acts in the late nineteenth century, animals who killed their captors might be publicly executed for their “crimes.”

The Korean-owned corner shop in a Black neighborhood serves as shorthand for racial conflict, obscuring Los Angeles’s intersectional histories.

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Common in colonial New England, bundling allowed a suitor to spend a night in bed with his sweetheart—while her parents slept in the next room.

For Black women engaged with local institutions, the “Delsarte” technique was a means of supporting struggling city residents while advancing political power.