The sport of competitive walking touched on social concerns such as debt and poverty, fitness and fame, but it also found support in the temperance movement.

The heroic masculinity that governed early glacial science had its roots in nineteenth-century British sporting culture.

Studies of play in dolphins

Sudanese pyramids are far less well known by either archaeologists or the public than their Egyptian counterparts.

Early writings of Charles Babbage.

In April 1863, the men of the 4th California infantry were hungry. They were posted at Drum Barracks ...