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In telling the story of M. Carey Thomas, there is no getting around the fundamental fact that she was, resoundingly, a terrible person....

Two scientists. Two crystallographers. Both successful, but one died young after her most significant discovery was snatched from her,...

America in the 1920s. The Jazz Age - flappers and motorcars, talkies and speak-easies - it is difficult to reflect on this time without...

Monterey Bay in the 1930s stood at the nadir of its ecological fortunes, having sustained every imaginable indignity that mankind’s...

In the late 18th century, when a crop failed, farmers and agricultural enthusiasts traded theories about what was to be done in the pages...