Folk Culture

through cracks in the stone foundation entered drafts of air and mice I could not bring myself to kill so...

Read this article in Hawaiian.At the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, through two massive metal gates—if...

Read this article in English.Ua unuhi ʻia kēia ʻatikala mai ka ʻōlelo haole mai. E heluhelu i ka mana ʻōlelo...

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In the weeks since the election, I’ve been thinking about the woman who told me she’d heard that Kamala Harris...

In 1829, the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham invented a cracker made from coarse wheat that he believed would help restore...

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The playwright August Wilson, who’s best known for his series chronicling 20th-century Black American life (colloquially known as the Century...

ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. MeixnerDay 10 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: the glow of...

July 1977: A 105-degree afternoon in Phoenix. I’m 17 and making deliveries in an underpowered Chevette with “4-55” air-conditioning (four...