Travelers brought the Chinese game to American shores in the early 1920s. Why was it such a hit?

Compiled by graduate students in a 2016 course on “Activism and Digital Culture,” at University of Southern California.

The editor of the lesbian feminist magazine Sinister Wisdom talked to us about lesbian print culture, feminist collectives, and revolution.

In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.

La Malinche was a key figure in the conquest of the Aztecs. But was she a heroine or a traitor? It depends on whom you ask.

Architect Mary Colter created buildings that incorporated local materials and indigenous motifs, blending with the environment rather than dominating it.

According to our columnist, the internet has destabilized many of the informal institutions that underpin our democracy.

According to one scholar, the 1917 deportation in Bisbee, AZ wasn't "about labor relations or race or gender: it was about all of them."

Studying the artist's paintings may reveal more about the her early trauma and subsequent pain than suspected.

Scholars Carol K. Coburn and Martha Smith write that nuns were an important part of westward expansion—and in Colorado, nuns quickly learned how to use their gender to their advantage.