What happens when a big stream of refugees enters an American community, bringing their foreign customs and values and taking scarce jobs?

Henry Ford's newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, published years of anti-Semitic articles, prompting Hitler to call him the "single great man."

The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev famously pounded his shoe at a United Nations meeting in 1960. Anecdotes of erratic behavior like this are unsettling.

In the early twentieth-century, some aristocratic college men were eager to prove their masculinity by working as strikebreakers.

Alexis Soyer frequently cooked for royalty and dignitaries, but also displayed a healthy social conscience.

An eighteenth-century precedent for today's community gardens in Sheffield, England.

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On the little-known hippie youth culture of the USSR.

Government distrust has been on the decline for decades, but a recent poll shows a slight increase.

The 5-second rule has been officially disproved.