Having won the right to vote, some suffragists moved on to fight water pollution and protect the environment.

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a Fourth of July speech that became his most famous public oration.

Looking beyond the science of climate change may allow for a more nuanced approach to the growing global crisis.

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

The idea of barbarian invasions comes from the nineteenth century, when they were constructed as the decisive event that wrenched the West into modernity.

Since 1823, when the Monroe Doctrine was first introduced to the world, the US has regarded Cuba as key to its designs for Latin America.

A "dirty" song recorded by Georgia Tom and Tampa Red in 1928 launched the "hokum" blues.

Traditional dance offers Filipino Americans a sense of pride and legitimacy while allowing them to cherish different aspects of this heritage practice.

The images that stick with us the most tend to be those we find by chance. That’s where search filters come in.

In the 1960s, the Mattachine Society had only a few thousand members. But tens of thousands of men subscribed to physique magazines published by gay entrepreneurs.