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Well-researched stories from The Conversation, The Washington Post, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

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Illustrated advertising cards invoked ethnic stereotypes, using black women as foils in order to appeal to white consumers.

The endangered eastern lowland gorilla populations are now so small that the species is facing a new threat: loss of genetic diversity.

New books and scholarship from Stanford University Press, University of Minnesota, and MIT Press.

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James Turrell is building an observatory that uses the human eye instead of optical instruments. It may soon be open to the public for the first time.

After triumphantly leading the Lewis and Clark expedition, Meriwether Lewis was either murdered or committed suicide. Did syphilis play a role?

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