The ethnic minority can now openly express their cultural identity but remain vulnerable to prejudice.

How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.

70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism.

The Long Read: The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past

Eostre: The Making of a Myth Note to those who've read it before: Part 2 is now up! Last Easter and the Easter before that, and for several more Easters, a story circulated both among neopagans and those they wished to educate. It concerned the origin of the Easter Bunny. The story goes something…

Some New Atheists have latched onto memes claiming "Easter" and its customs are stolen from paganism. But is just another case of them not checking facts?

For many millennia, Indigenous Australians have engineered our landscape. From an ochre mine to fish traps, here are five remarkable examples of First Nations technical know-how.

Saniyeh's story embodies Palestinian society's century-long struggle to educate and uplift girls, highlighting women's vital role in education. Her legacy is celebrated as a symbol of Palestinian women's resilience.

As of March 2023, 72 women have flown in space. Of these, 44 have worked on the International Space Station as long-duration expedition crewmembers, as visitors on space shuttle assembly flights, or as space flight participants on short-duration missions. This article recognizes the significant accomplishments of these women from many nations.

'There appears to be a historical misunderstanding at foot, and the idea of what a mestizo was in the Philippine context has been lost'

A rich and complex chile paste that's a mainstay of the Malay kitchen.

The book is an accessible and finely written introduction to one of the most controversial issues in India.

The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.

An interactive and highly illustrated story that investigates the historic rubber industry in Malaya, and its discriminative practices.

Black ballplayers played a large role in the development of professional baseball in Japan, with barnstorming tours and All-Stars...

Giotto Madonna and Child (detail) 1320 National Gallery, Washington DC Have you ever noticed decorative borders in certain Byzantine or ...

Hear The original historically accurate "Ain't I a woman"  speech by Sojourner Truth. Read the incorrect Elizabeth Gage speech as you listen to the correct original speech by Sojourner Truth.

How to reckon with the ideology of “Anna Karenina,” “Eugene Onegin,” and other beloved books.

In the 1970s and 80s, when the guards stepped away, the pots and flames came out.

Being curious and obsessed can lead to interesting places

The firing of an art historian at Hamline University after dubious 'Islamophobia' claims further dislocates the religion from its history

Russians haven't risen up and overthrown their government like some of their neighbors. No, not because something is wrong with them.

And he got it from an unlikely, although unknown, source.

After their removal from the region around Chicago in the early nineteenth century, Native Americans began returning to the city in the 1950s under the federal government's ill-planned relocation policy. Chicago has the oldest urban Indian center, and the third largest urban population of Native Americans.

In Diyarbakır, Turkey, one 24-year-old is documenting an ancient practice and popularising it among a new generation.

Research finds secret of durability of buildings such as the Pantheon could be in the techniques used at the time