Despite deep biases, the early editions of the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb contain the seeds of a distinct deaf culture.

Almost everything about our culture today is built on oil. Can we imagine a world built on a different energy infrastructure?

Women in heterosexual relationships still do most of the domestic work. During the holiday season, the tasks multiply.

A story of petticoats and power.

Planet names must be 16 letters or less, preferably one word, non-offensive, and not too similar to an existing one.

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

The silent film director Georges Melies made a unique and wonderful Christmas film by borrowing the theatrical techniques of French “feeries.”

Cancel culture may prove to be the most memorable linguistic trend of the past decade.

Tweety bird linguistics, tiny purses, Beowulf's monsters, and the evolution of beauty.

Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.