Before Disneyland, Fantasia brought imagineering to life through an ambitious experiment in animation. Fantasia is an early ...

What makes someone else's behavior so embarrassing? The answer lies in our expectations of how people should act.

A collection of Texas directories from 1913 to 1959 shows how phone books—and the people who used them—helped invent ...

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

“Mental load” and “emotional labor” are terms that have come into widespread use—and often gone viral—in discussions of gendered divisions of household labor. These accounts make the point that taking ...

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

Once a key site of Cold War arms production, Rocky Flats is now a wildlife refuge. What happened to its troubled past?

Haiti was once the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the “Pearl of the Antilles” for slavery. In late August 1791, its enslaved population rose up in what the historian Ada Ferrer calls a coordinated ...

What do spinning on a merry-go-round, dancing by a campfire, and being hit with a paddle as part of a fraternity initiation have in common? Folklorist Jay Mechling argues that they’re forms of play ...

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 ...