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When American troops headed to Europe for WWI, hostility to all things German intensified across the country. Schools even banned German fairy tales.

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Among her other literary accomplishments, Jean Stein edited Grand Street for 14 years. Here are two of her interviews for the magazine.

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Stereotyping and discrimination in Hollywood has elicited different responses from Mexican-Americans and Mexicans in Mexico.

The rate of photosynthesis has increased dramatically over the past century. Plants have been shielding us from some of the effects of climate change.

Maybe you've never heard of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, but they were real-life women pirates who cross-dressed to get on ships.