Instead of of sanitizing the past, communities need to strike a balance between confronting history and respecting the needs of the present.

The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”

Creative therapies are teaching veterans with genital injuries alternative ways to be intimate.

Legends about the extinct bird being slow of foot and mind are just that: legends. 

Black citizens of the United States have seldom enjoyed the same right to bear arms that whites do.

In her new documentary, the filmmaker explores how the Thirteenth Amendment led to an epidemic of mass incarceration in the United States.

A multi-ethnic democracy requires grappling honestly with the past—and recognizing the symbols of the Confederacy for what they are.

It’s an endearing, giant, flightless, New Zealand parrot, and it’s a poster child for the quantified-self movement.

New genetic evidence suggests our mysterious ancient cousins were more resilient—and more humanlike—than previously thought.

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