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Created in Victorian England, the earliest public parks were on a civilizing mission.

Chien-Shiung Wu disproved a fundamental law of physics—a stunning achievement that helped earn her male colleagues (but not her) a Nobel Prize.

Why was the legendary Soviet filmmaker rebuffed in his vision of putting history's most consequential slave revolt on screen?

To the barricades! And then...to the opera!

Soviet dissident Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate was "arrested" by the KGB in 1961. Here's how it finally saw the light of day.

At a retreat center called Our Cabaña, girls from all over the world became Cold War–era diplomats. American scouts had additional ideas.

US police departments began taking photographs of people they arrested in the 1850s.

A contemporary scholar uses the ancient Greek historian to explain the 1968 Pueblo Crisis in North Korea.

A series of reforms known as the Patriotic Health Campaign brought colorful posters depicting good hygiene and workplace safety practices.

The manly knight wouldn't have lasted a day in sixteenth-century combat. So why was he so popular as a literary figure at the time?

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