Grab a cheeseboard and pour a soft, fruity red to help you solve this month’s puzzle.

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.

Released on the global stage by Cher, the vocoder effect speaks for the millennium and for queer subculture.

With air-minded films, poems, and demonstrations, Soviet leaders sought to lift peasants out of their “backward” lives and into the world of the modern proletariat.

Lee’s untimely death in 1973 sparked an argument between his widow and his girlfriend over his libido that played out publicly in international media.

The nineteenth-century colonial economy of Western Australia depended on unfree labor, whether from indentured workers, convicts, or Indigenous people.

Cranes, sandpipers, ducks, geese and many other waterbirds have lost essential rest stops along their seasonal migration routes. Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in filling the gaps.

The import and mass-market replicas of the Kashmiri shawl highlighted Victorian anxieties about empire and its role in industrial modernity.  

The perception of weight discrimination shapes both people’s experience of their own weight status and their disability outcomes.

Since the religion’s early days, Christian thinkers have treated vegetarianism sometimes as heretical, sometimes as evidence of saintly asceticism.