Modern pianos are the product of a 600-year evolution—from Hermann Poll's 1397 clavicembalum, to clavichords, harpsichords, and the modern grand piano.

What's behind the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar in which the minority Rohingya people are being violently driven out of the country?

The southern resident killer whales of the northeast Pacific are in trouble. As habitats and food dwindle, they increasingly miscarry and lose their babies.

The integration of collegiate and professional sports parallels the civil rights movement, but in important ways it was a whole different track.

The phrase "Silicon Valley" conjures images of a crowded mini-metropolis in California, and a barrage of familiar Western brands. That's about to change.

As historian Déborah Berman Santana writes, the US is very much responsible for molding Puerto Rico’s economy to begin with.

The history of the wedding dress is shorter than the history of weddings, and even shorter still than the history of marriage.

Art by Mexican "Radical Women" artists capture the turbulent times of the feminist movement in Mexico in the 1970s and still ring true today.

What exactly are the Ig Nobels? And what can we learn from the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Annals of Improbable Results?

Training skilled workers within a school system was a way to sell ordinary workers on the value of the industrial system and thwart union recruiting.