Culture

Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.

Language variation is just as diverse within Appalachia as it is outside of the region.

Decades before "The L Word," Edythe Eyde knew her magazine for lesbians — Vice Versa — was illegal.

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.

How Earhart and other women pilots of her day helped overcome Americans’ skepticism about flight.

The crucial decade was the 1970s, when the industry’s increased consolidation and ever-blander product collided with key social and economic changes.

It was a time when promoters were telling women in music: “You can’t put two women on the same bill. People won’t come.”

Out-of-the-can branding helped transform World War II’s rations into a beloved household staple.

A stuffed history of the closet, where the “past becomes space.”

A pair of 1959 films brought "Smell-o-vision" into movies.

Henry Adams's classic autobiography speaks to concerns of privilege, failure, and progress in his rapidly changing world.

The word 'history' evolved from an ancient Greek verb, but its definition has changed over the years

Members of the Revolution look back on Prince's massive, awe-inspiring 'Purple Rain' tour in our exclusive oral history.

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine's first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact.

In the 1940s and 50s, a life of business travel represented a sense of freedom for gay men that would have been impossible in earlier decades.

Fear of diminishing broodstock got the gals going outdoors.

Mercy Otis Warren used her wit to agitate for independence.

The banjo's history and its symbolism of community, slavery, resistance, and ultimately America itself.

Today's diners would surprise a 1940s patron. These restaurants were once vulgar boy’s clubs before becoming today's family-friendly establishments.

Stephanie Hall provides examples of folklore and storytelling within a fathers' relationship to music.

Chinese restaurants are now an American staple, but in the past some Americans tried to shut them down.

Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has lost a bit of its protest oomph—in part because of a decades-long denial of its later verses.

On June 15, 1846, Francis Parkman Jr., a young, Harvard-educated historian, arrived at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to begin his journey along the Oregon Trail.

Buying a necktie for your dad is a stereotypical way to celebrate Father's Day, but it's in keeping with the holiday's history.

The White House wants to reinstate the sale of horses for slaughter, but eating horse meat has always been politically treacherous.

Barry R. Harwood says of George Hunzinger's work, “No one else was doing this. They didn’t have a name for it yet.”

We had to count them all.

For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning of the long road to Washington, D.C.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did "more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."