But either way – responding to crisis or finding a public change of heart – is a reminder that voters are the ultimate arbiters in a functioning democracy. Today, as in late-19th-century America, ...

What if a small brown bottle symbolized freedom, desire, and community? That’s the story of poppers, little bottles of alkyl nitrites that started out in the 19th century as a remedy for angina before ...

From opium-laced syrups to “just ignore the baby,” history is packed with child-rearing advice and habits best left in the ...

Count Dracula symbolism, origins of vampire folklore, medieval vampire myths, Eastern European vampire stories, psychology of ...

Learn strategies for breaking free of repetitive compulsion and transforming familiar, yet destructive patterns.

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

Historic sites like former prisons and asylums were the sites of real-life horrors. Halloween can mean needed revenue, but also ethical questions.

A 19th-century wangim or boomerang has revealed how sophisticated the First Peoples of Australia were as engineers, and how engineering exquisitely interweaves with cultural meaning. A press release ...

In the early 1800s, American agriculture was the backbone of the national economy. As Mark Oppold explains in An American Agriculture History Minute, most citizens relied on farming not only for ...

At the Heckscher Museum of Art, "Emma Stebbins: Carving Out History" marks the first exhibition dedicated to the pioneering yet overlooked 19th-century artist. Emma Stebbins, Angel of the Waters (1873 ...

The estate was the product of Nashville's Cheek family, which made its fortune off the sale of a successful family business responsible for creating the Maxwell House Coffee Blend. Once a private ...