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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...

In one sense, the story of Lovenia Deconge Watson (b. 1933) is the story of thousands of bright young Black women, born in the South in...

In the 1880s, Southern California agriculture was in a state of crisis. The wheat which had been long the basis of its prosperity was...

“Even though she’ll be a spinster, she’ll be able to support herself.” These lines, uttered in 1948, were the gateway to a professional...

The story of the women’s medical movement in India is, when told at all, generally centered upon its British founding figures - Ida...

In the middle of the Twentieth Century, if you wanted to know about the bleeding edge of modern chemical spectroscopy, Gladys Anslow...

There is something instantly mesmerizing about looking into the face of a raptor, a wordless communication between two species which are...

You are placed in front of a screen that is black save for one spot of red in the center, and are told to focus strictly and solely upon...

We are never alone. From our first connections with other human beings, we start filling ourselves with them, melding not only their...

In 1941, the first patent was filed for a hot new product that stood to revolutionize the electronics field - it was a capacitor that...

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank...

Had Maria Montessori died in 1913 at age 43, at the height of her fame and insight, this would be a pretty straightforward article about...

1919 was a year of promise born of misery.  Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World...

We can be a heedless species. We daily expose ourselves to wear and tear both from the environment and our own actions that take their...

In the early 20th century, buying and consuming food of any sort in an urban center was a fraught proposition, particularly in the days...

In its externals the life of Emma Carr (1880-1972) bears many similarities to that of fellow physicist Margaret Maltby (1860-1944). Both...