Japan’s distinctive cartoons are attracting worldwide audiences, Hollywood studios and private equity companies alike. Who ...

In the late 19th century, upper-caste Indian elites sought political reforms and representation from the British. The Census figures enabled the colonial government to reshape India’s complex ...

But if they were living in the United States during the mid-to-late 19th century, that vision of food ... In some cases, food wasn’t food at all. A cartoon titled ‘Poisoning by Food ...

All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

His native Guatemala is struggling through political turmoil and remains ... a missionary order founded by an Italian bishop in the late 19th century to serve migrants and refugees.

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

The Postal Service actually came into existence in 1971, following a wildcat strike by mostly letter carriers in big cities in the late summer ... Throughout the 19th century until the 1960s ...

Known to history only as Hoo Loo, he bled out on an operating table 5,000 miles from home. How did he get there? Was he a victim? And what can his story tell us about the rise of modern medicine?

Finally, as the pandemic lockdown descended around us in late March, I went to get an ... about the nature of illness. In the mid-19th century, health-minded urban reformers were taking aim ...