How come it's so hard to go in sweet privacy when you're out and about?

In the nineteenth century, laws in many parts of the country prohibited "undeserving" disabled people from appearing in public.

As more women went to college, department stores catered to them by setting up pop-up "college shops" every September.

Marcus Garvey left Jamaica unemployed, an anti-colonial trade unionist who British authorities considered dangerous.

In Victorian England, reformers thought all children should go to school. That didn't sit well with everyone—and not just kids.

Mothers used to documented their infant children's milestones—first steps, first smile—in specially made books. They're amazing historical documents.

At a time when trans people who wanted surgery needed to trust doctors, transphobia made it difficult.

Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.

The pro-cremation movement of the nineteenth century battled religious tradition, not to mention the specter of mass graves during epidemics.

The emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. took place over a protracted period. The articles in this curated list dig into the complicated history.