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The history of the wedding dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage.

Calico took the newly industrial world by storm. But battles over bolts of fabric shook Britain during the nineteenth century.

When is speech violence? Sometimes. It depends. That’s a complicated question.

An interview with Gareth Dale on his work on Karl Polanyi, and the past and future of capitalism.

Our tendency to view people with mental disorders as monsters instead of patients has a history that dates back to the 1400s.

From Egypt to East Asia, ways of making mummies have varied. Sometimes, as a recent find reveals, mummification happens completely by accident.

Like many of her poems, Emily Dickinson's "The Snow That Never Drifts" presents a riddle for the reader