He's hailed as the "father of infection control" and the "savior of mothers," but the truth about Ignaz Semmelweis is more complicated than that.

Nestlé promoted formula in the developing world, even though they knew bottle-feeding with limited sanitation and refrigeration could be dangerous.

Many abolitionists seeking to end slavery in the British West Indies were concerned less with human rights, more with the preponderance of what they saw as "interracial sex."

The Book of Stones, a central alchemical text, contained formulae with the power to create living tissue from ordinary matter, supposedly.

Pushing New Deal legislation, FDR proposed that extra justices should be added to the Supreme Court, one for every sitting justice over the age of seventy.

Supersonic aircrafts are much faster than typical passenger planes. Unfortunately, there are some downsides.

High school reunions have become an important part of managing and presenting identity, as these scholars and poets consider.

Probably. If all Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets melt, the sea level will rise over 200 feet.

Well-researched stories from Pacific Standard, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The marchese's 1939-1940 diary, detailing the months before Italy's armed alliance with Nazi Germany, is now available as A Chill in the Air.