Given its strong gendered associations, it may be surprising that height hasn’t been well studied by historians.

British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently "forgot" slavery ever existed.

To reduce Virginia’s use of the death penalty, Thomas Jefferson proposed using permanent disfigurement as a punishment for rape, polygamy, and sodomy.

Maybe it’s something about the number eleven?

England faced a generational divide almost 500 years ago, as the Protestant Reformation split the nation apart.

Juan Felipe Herrera is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. It is a position that has had a long life, dating back to the Greeks.