Genetic studies of clothing lice by other researchers suggest an origin for clothing by perhaps 170,000 years ago in Africa. It also is likely that Neanderthals, a close human cousin who entered ...

Hilary · Clinton's trademark is said to be a pantsuit, but in reality there are no pockets in most of the suits Clinton wears. It is now a pocket that is attached to clothes as usual, but "There is a ...

It only took us 1 million years to work out how to make clothes. That’s the time between when we began to shed our body hair and become naked apes and when we first started to wrap up warm in animal ...

At a time when history is aggressively being redefined as moral science, and where its only purpose is to list out the ‘villains’ and ‘heroes’ of the past, in order to identify and vilify large ...

Clothing, in our troubled modern times, is considered a fairly trivial thing. It’s incredibly easy to buy, wear, and discard without a thought. And perhaps in the face of climate change, the threat of ...

From land confiscations to poisonings, a sobering history reveals the secret human cost of five fabrics The making of good fabric cannot happen in isolation: it cannot happen without good communities ...

In the basement of the theater building on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kiki Smith is walking alongside the gray lockers that sweep the perimeter of the room. "So all ...

Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Lucy Adlington’s new work of narrative nonfiction traces the fates of four red sweaters and the teenagers and ...