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Well-researched stories from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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Virologist Jonas Salk led the team that developed the breakthrough vaccine for polio. He was also a social critic.

As a style of Afro-Cuban music and dance, mambo was considered "primitive." And not just by white North Americans.

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During World War I, anti-vice crusaders marked women who liked the nightlife as shady. You can tell by the way men started talking about them.

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