Science

Heritage animal breeding has transformed living history museums and challenged both the public and historians to reconsider colonial Americans’ animal world.

Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe.

Representative Mo Udall's ambitious strategy to wean the United States off fossil fuels by the year 2000.

Read the original article that unearthed the Tuskegee experiment.

In 1965, eight years before Roe v. Wade, an anonymous woman described the steps she took to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.

Meyer Berger’s 1938 look at the technology, history, and culture of eavesdropping, from the wiretapping of Dutch Schulz to the invention of the Speak-O-Phone.

"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, and avalanches; but he cannot save them from fools—only Uncle Sam can do that."

A noted architect commends Thomas Edison for his progress in developing the phonograph and predicts great things for its future.