Those who control the past control the future. Those who control the present control the past.” — George Orwell, 1984 When ...

Drawing from student resistance in the 1970s, a new generation of Black Panamanian organizers is confronting environmental ...

A new exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park called "The First Homosexuals" explores LGBTQ history and identity through art and expression.

Over the last decade, the question of what makes food or a restaurant gay has permeated food media. In their new books, ...

One of the bloodiest chapters in the history of modern China was recorded late on June 3 when Chinese troops cracked down on ...

The historian Clinton Rossiter wrote a book in the 1960s titled Conservatism in America but subtitled The Thankless Persuasion. The United States is a revolutionary society, he wrote, constantly ...

Realizing that our God-given freedom, joy, and capability can never degrade empowers us to overcome limitations.

Nostalgia is a killer. The term, originally coined in the late seventeenth century, described an illness that came in ...

The previous Pope Leo emphasized the Catholic Church's responsibility to care for the poor and support workers' rights.

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a ...

Trans people fought police alongside gays and lesbians after a 1969 raid on the Stonewall Inn. A government website now tells just part of the story.

The Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island is preparing to receive thousands of images and negatives by the iconic artist who defied 19th-century gender norms.