Our focus on recycling to save the planet may be missing the mark.

A scholar and military veteran proposes that poems written by veterans that focus on honoring those who have died in service can help heal an ailing nation.

Peter Sloane’s new study examines the narratives put forth by asylum seekers striving to reclaim their stories from mainstream media and political discourse.

What is this “settler colonialism” that’s become all the rage? Let’s take a closer look.

Since the mid-1990s, Russian authorities have insisted on particular understandings of some parts of the country’s history as a matter of national security.

Well-researched stories from MongaBay, Noema Magazine, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The Fugitive Slave Act erased the most basic of constitutional rights for enslaved people and incentivized US Commissioners to support kidnappers.

Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.

The American habitus was forged partly by the conquest of Native land and partly by the experiences of superiority and entitlement among white enslavers.

Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Vietnam in 1929 fanned the debate about the region’s potential future without the French.