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.

The creative works on which Hector Berlioz drew when writing his macabre and revolutionary symphony were fantastic indeed.

Why did so many plantation workers in Burma, Malaya, and Singapore rush to join the all-woman Rani of Jhansi regiment of the Indian National Army?

Lesbian relationships among government workers were seen as a threat to national security in the 1950s. But what constituted a lesbian relationship was an open question.

What role could a mythical animal play in our lives—centuries after its existence came into question?

Convicted and imprisoned for libeling the Prince Regent, Hunt capitalized on his incarceration by turning his prison cell into a newsroom and grand salon.

Reducing the gap between quantitative evaluation scores for male and female instructors may be as simple as changing a single number.

Freedmen’s Bureau courts provided a forum for newly emancipated people in the “uncertain legal landscape” of the defeated Confederacy.

Ancient DNA reveals how the Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries.

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”