Busing as a means used to end school segregation remains controversial. Does it work? The case of Norfolk, Virginia, is highly instructive.

Over 20 countries have high-speed train travel, carrying 1.6 billion passengers a year. The United States is lagging behind.

This anthropologist's research on contemporary American society probes the tensions between business and art in the film world.

Curiosity rover's recent report of methane on Mars isn't the first time the gas has been indicated. Does it necessarily mean that Mars harbors life?

Tsantsas, or shrunken human heads, remind us of how museums have often been founded on a violent trade in indigenous culture.

How advertising used the phrase “better living” to portray big business as a force for moral good and continuous progress.

In China, gramophone and camera in tow, botanist and explorer Joseph Rock collected seeds from the tree peony that bears his name.

For nearly a century, Quilombo of Palmares was an Afro-Brazilian state, populated and run by people who had freed themselves from slavery.

In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.

As the need for ranch workers has dwindled, the iconic status of cowboys has continued to grow.