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Italian immigrants had no qualms about working and living alongside Black Americans, which made them targets for violence by white vigilantes in Louisiana.

Although their contributions have been largely forgotten, women played an active role in Washington DC’s air defense system during World War II.

The jukebox turned listening to music into a performative act. With a single coin, listeners could share their musical taste with everyone in the place.

A Vietnamese double agent who infiltrated and led the Communist Party of Malaya in the 1930s, Lai Teck also spied for the British and the Japanese.

How the potato changed the course of world history…twice.

In the early centuries of Vajrayāna Buddhism in India, practitioners worked to reconcile the religion’s teaching of nonviolence with the realities of warfare.

Research suggests it was more sudden than that.

The idea of awarding legal personhood to nature has received renewed attention in the contemporary environmental justice movement, but much contention remains.

The Black-owned club became a Great Falls hotspot, welcoming all to a music-filled social venue for almost thirty years.