"On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."

Often classified as an invasive species, guava ignites a longstanding, transnational battle over foreign invaders and local customs.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

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Women's clubs were popular after the Civil War among white and Black women. But white clubwomen used their influence to ingrain racist curriculum in schools.

Isinglass comes from the swim bladders of certain kinds of fish and can be found in everything from beer recipes to illuminated manuscripts. Ew? No way.

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Contrary to the widespread idea that white missionaries stamped out the sport, evidence suggests that Native Hawai‘ians never stopped surfing.

How the meaning of Blackness, and the social construction of race, varies across era and region.