In early 19th century Bengal, to find yourself pregnant was to see stretching before you nine of the most agonizing months of your existence. Considered Unclean by social practice, you were removed to...

At least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group.

Carol Gilligan’s groundbreaking feminist book “In a Different Voice” is more than 40 years old. She wishes it weren’t still so relevant.

A new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck in a Melbourne car park – rekindling its activist intent

One of the best-known Black poets of the 19th century, she was also a renowned orator. “You white women speak here of rights,” she said. “I speak of wrongs.”

Live long and prosper with sixty years of Star Trek soundtracks.

Bettye Lane, a photojournalist who lived at Westbeth, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. She has been called the official photographer of the women’s movement and was one of the few photographers w...

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told.

Librarians who've been fired for not banning books and sued are winning settlements in their cases.