On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and businessman named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans ...

Before trailblazing Japanese photographer George Masa captured the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, where did his love of ...

Word from the Smokies: New discoveries enhance understanding of enigmatic Smokies photographer George Masa.

Paul I. Yakovlev worked at state institutions for over 25 years, collecting the post-mortem brains of his patients.

The Atget in the International Center of Photography’s new exhibition in New York is rarely at his finest. The ambitious but ultimately dispiriting homage — subtitled The Making of a Reputation — ...

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

Through oceanic quilts and photographs, the artist transforms Miami’s waters into a site of refuge, memory, and belonging.

Two years ago, our cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe woke from a coma and soon learned her body would be profoundly altered. She recounts her journey back to the kitchen, and to herself. The writer ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

In late December, a relatively little-known platform, Anna’s Archive, made global headlines after it hacked Spotify. Tracked closely by open source movement advocates, the database that indexes ...

For these sources, local repositories such as the Osterhout Free Library, the Luzerne County Historical Society (see note below), and the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society are the places to ...