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No study, even those finding strong differences, has ever found differences in cognitive ability between male and female brains.

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The history of racism and ethnic hate in America is long and deep. What are the cultural, economic, and political currents that led us here?

Chatauquas changed the lives of Midwestern women between 1878 and 1900, setting the stage for new gender roles in the twentieth century.

The first modern bicycles were for adults. Ads for boys’ bikes drew from, and fed into, a changing vision of boyhood during World War I.

Cahokia was the largest pre-columbian settlement north of Mexico. It collapsed centuries before Europeans arrived in the region. What happened?

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Does disunity harm a political party? An account of the organizing by unemployed workers in the 1930s may offer some clues.