It might have been the most cultured house-share of the 20th century. In 1940, WH Auden was living in Brooklyn Heights in a ...

The Merry Pranksters began to throw their infamous Acid Tests around the San Francisco Bay Area, advocating for the use of ...

Rereading Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” nearly 70 years after publication reveals a different book than the one younger readers embraced — less a manifesto of freedom than a meditation on restlessness, ...

During World War II, both Axis and Allied forces issued millions of stimulant pills to keep soldiers awake, alert, and marching for days without rest. Nazi Germany distributed over 35 million tablets ...