Trees in cities have the ability to sequester carbon, provide shade, and mitigate flooding. But no one tree fits all environments.

In 1943, white servicemen attacked young people of color for wearing the ultimate in street style—on the pretext that they were shirking wartime duty.

Although many archaeologists are trained to prize objectivity, Indigenous scholars approach research with a different sort of grounding.

In the hands of performers known as cancionistas, the genre known for its machismo was transformed.

Un análisis químico de una área puede determinar cuánta contaminación hay en el aire. Pero hay un método mucho menos costoso que podría ayudar a las comunidades más pobres.

A chemical analysis of an area can find out how much pollution is in the air. But there's a much less expensive method that could help poorer communities.

In 1980, the policy of denying entry into the US based on homosexuality ran smack into anticommunism.

The brilliant hues of autumn are created by a variety of factors that shift year by year. A warming planet is already one of them.

The ultimate conspiracy theory may be the charge of Jews killing Christian children.

Orientalism is alive and well in the wildly popular franchise, argues one scholar.