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affirmative action

Minority students in racially isolated schools have drastically less access to critical educational resources.

Ronald Reagan invoked Dr. King's legacy to fit with his larger political and rhetorical aims.

A different side to affirmative-action: How legacy admissions maintained white Protestant student enrollment at elite universities.

Three affirmative-action cases set precedent for the Supreme Court as they make a decision on Fisher vs. University of Texas.

One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.

Why are Jane Austen books still so beloved? A linguist argues it has more to do with Austen's masterful use of language than with plot.

Horses and mules played a major role in the American Civil War. In the end, there were about twice as many dead equines as humans.

For most of the Jewish world, Hanukkah is a minor holiday. What happened in America?

Director Steven Soderbergh’s historical drama series, The Knick, brings viewers inside a New York City hospital’s operating room ...