Until the Plague decimated Europe and reconfigured society, brewing beer and selling it was chiefly the domain of the fairer sex.

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.

Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.

Pour one out for the people paid to rouse the workers of industrial Britain.

Ice harvesters once made a living from frozen lakes and ponds, and the international ice industry was a booming business. Then refrigeration came along.

As telephony developed, so did a workforce of switchboard operators—all women—who were ultimately rendered obsolete by technological progress.

Amongst the hundreds of minorities within the Subcontinent, Black Indians of African origin stand out.

Ariel epitomizes mermaids now, but these beguiling creatures precede her by millennia, sparking imaginations the world over with a hearty embrace of otherness.