Geophagy is the intentional eating of earth. It’s a type of pica, the craving for and consumption of non-food items. Pica is often considered a rare psychological disorder, yet the consumption of soil ...

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 ...

While most common in the nineteenth century, the practice of “telling the bees” about significant life events endures, albeit in a different form, to the present day. The most pervasive and affecting ...

Mayflower colonist John Goodman was out for a walk around Plymouth Colony with a spaniel, one of the two dogs that had also ...

Middle-aged performers are taking on roles once reserved for men, challenging expectations about age and gender in Bali.

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.

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 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual. In the next two years, nearly 200 more state employees were dismissed for the same ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston looked beyond grand estates to document the ordinary buildings that defined American life.

Research on police training finds that realistic simulations may reinforce expectations of violence instead of preventing it.

When a major accident or health emergency happens, care provided by first responders is often the key to survival. Can officials in Washington really make changes that improve the care people receive ...

Why do jazz and poetry feel so interconnected—so much so that some have even described “jazz poetry” as its own form? It might help to start with a definition. Jazz poetry can be poetry that is ...