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

For more than a century, Americans have commonly asked how public schools could do a better job of teaching people to be good citizens. One early stab at the question came from S. E. Forman, an early ...

A man in make-up and pearls condemning transgender people may seem counterintuitive, but Milo Yiannopoulos is hardly the first gay reactionary. The case of Ernst Röhm, the highest-ranking gay Nazi, ...

During World War II, the Germans and their allies murdered about one in every four Roma in Europe. Roma (or Romani) is the preferred name for those traditionally called Gypsies. Many Roma now consider ...

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

In recent years, the rush of fast fashion has attracted criticism for its environmental impact and waste. Consumers can order clothes online at very low prices. These garments are often made of ...

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 ...

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?