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Montour presented herself as a cultural intermediary between Native Americans and whites in colonial America. But who was she?

JSTOR Daily editors pick their favorite stories for Black History Month.

The murder of American journalist George Polk in Greece remains unsolved more than seventy-five years later.

An obsession with eating fish mapped onto all sorts of social anxieties, from gluttony and gambling problems to wasteful spending and licentiousness.