Was sleep-preaching an ingenious way for oppressed women to subvert the social order through somniloquy?

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The founding of Walter Reed General Hospital at the beginning of the twentieth century marked a shift in medical care for military personnel and veterans.

The Toronto rapper embraces a patois-inflected “bad gal” image to tell a deeply personal story about historical violence.

A growing number of overseas Vietnamese, or Viêt Kiêu, call Ho Chi Minh City home. Why are so many emigrants and their children returning to Vietnam?

Bennie “Kid” Paret and Emile Griffith were both ready to fight, but it was unlikely either boxer was prepared for the outcome of their final bout.

Prisoners not only supported the war effort in surprising ways during World War II, they fought and died in it.

In the eighteenth century, if people in British North America had to travel, they stayed at public houses that were often just repurposed private homes.

Empowerment, individual strength, and the many facets of love.

How to be agents who use new AI tools, rather than subjects manipulated by them.