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Piet Mondrian, co-founder of De Stijl, argued that the art movement wasn’t ready for architecture. Theo van Doesburg and others believed it was. Who was right?

If the intercropping of beans, squash, and corn produces smaller yields, why did the the Haudenosaunee prefer the Three Sisters system?

Or maybe this week’s puzzle is really about Greek salad and gulleys.

Researchers interviewed women in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to understand how they coped with social and economic changes tied to deindustrialization.

How has the Harry Potter series remained so beloved across decades filled with young adult and fantasy novels?

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.

A scholar of the medical humanities shares ideas for helping students discover how language shaped past cultural attitudes—and still shapes them in the present.

More and more states are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.

How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.