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Implanting machine components into human bodies, argues one scholar, could make for a better society.

The Women’s KKK, an affiliated-but-separate racist organization for white Protestant women, courted members through an insincere “empowerment feminism.”

Historians need to know more about the roles of two-spirit Native Americans, but relying on written records isn't always productive.

The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.

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Indigenous peoples' techniques to manage and benefit from fire are threatened, even as wildfires burn more frequently and intensely.

Rebellion against invasion triggered a series of events that would take a "swift and violent toll" on a Caribbean island's native biodiversity.

Two scholars compared coming out experiences in the U.S. and France. The differences may speak to shifts in everyday life for LGBTQ people.