The horror films of the 1970s captured a cultural shift from fears of institutional abuse to anxieties about psychiatric ...

As London’s graveyards overflowed, a private company proposed a remarkable new way to bury the dead.

The plague of lynchings of Mexican-Americans in the American West has long been excluded from history books. For the Journal of Social History, historians William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb analyzed ...

Sir Robert Peel is popularly credited with the formation of the first modern municipal police force, founded in London, in 1829. Before him, what passed for policing was really a hodge-podge of ...

What happened when the Beat Generation bumped up against the popular culture they were rebelling against? Historian Stephen Petrus writes about how the youth subculture was turned into a commodity.

Until the early twentieth century, medical schools in the United States resembled today’s for-profit colleges, both in quality and reputation. There were no common standards for curriculum or ...

When the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was born in 1884, in rural Illinois, movies barely existed. Micheaux was the son of former slaves. By the time he left home, at the age of 17, movies had progressed ...

Egyptian Ex-President Mohamed Morsi died of a heart attack on June 17, 2019, in a soundless cage in a Cairo courtroom. A leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi was Egypt’s first democratically ...

In last month’s “Learning to Look” column we explored color, a delightfully complex element of art and design. Like shape, value, space, form, line, and texture, color is considered a structural ...

In November, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which sets limits on the ability of non-Native families to adopt Native American children.

Forty years ago, a baby was stolen from her imprisoned mother in Argentina. The military junta ruling the country tortured and murdered both her parents. Then they gave the baby to loyal supporters of ...