In the 1930s, a coalition southern white women fought against lynching, disproving the idea that extrajudicial killings were intended to protect them.

The mother-daughter relationship in Hisaye Yamamoto’s fiction is a stand-in for the relationship between the American nation-state and the Nisei male citizens.

When FitzRoy distributed barometers to local fishing communities, he empowered individual sailors to use their own judgment about the weather forecast.

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Otto M was a university researcher who was both an enthusiastic Nazi and a bigamist, openly married to two women.

We’ve trashed Earth, so let’s trash space… Oh, wait, we already have!

Environmental historian Adam Rome considers the destructive history of fashion and style.

Think reptiles like crocodiles and caimans are slow learners? It’s probably because you’re human.

The effectiveness of popular movements for social change depends on both underlying political conditions and the strategies adopted by activists.

Researchers are creating advanced simulations that will provide a deeper understanding of Mars’s climatic history and help to determine whether it was once able to sustain life.