Offshoots from the “Tree of Life” traveled from Mesopotamia to the Levant to the United States, beguiling everyone with their toothsome confections.

The built environment of the playground influences children’s play styles, and even small interventions can affect cognitive and social-emotional development.

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The first American woman to establish an independent architectural practice, Minerva Parker Nichols built an unprecedented career in Philadelphia.

An interview with historian of US foreign policy and diplomacy Simon Miles, who finds that surprises in the archives can lead to the most compelling projects.

Grab a cheeseboard and pour a soft, fruity red to help you solve this month’s puzzle.

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.

Released on the global stage by Cher, the vocoder effect speaks for the millennium and for queer subculture.

With air-minded films, poems, and demonstrations, Soviet leaders sought to lift peasants out of their “backward” lives and into the world of the modern proletariat.

Lee’s untimely death in 1973 sparked an argument between his widow and his girlfriend over his libido that played out publicly in international media.