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The lesser-known history of the Monroe Doctrine
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSmith's Plantation Library of Congress/Digiital Public Library of America Today marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, celebrated in history...
From the Na'vi's blue skin to the Hallelujah Mountains, how the world of James Cameron's 'Avatar'...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years ago"Avatar" director James Cameron said the Na'vi's blue skin is a reference to Hindu deities.20th...
The Inside History of How Guns Are Marketed and Sold in America
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) speaks in front of published...
How Columbus Day contributes to the cultural erasure of Italian Americans
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA float featuring Christopher Columbus makes its way down Fifth Avenue during the 75th annual...
What is culture?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 2 years agonull Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and...
The Asian Canadian gay activist whose theories on sexuality were decades ahead of their time
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLi Shiu Tong, right, was the boyfriend and intellectual heir of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld....
Trump hits the panic button: Antisemitic attacks on special counsel Jack Smith betray desperation
Salon via Yahoo News· 12 months agoDonald Trump; Jack SmithPhoto illustration by Salon/Getty Images As detailed in historian George...
How Far Back Were Africans Inoculating Against Smallpox? Really Far Back.
Slate via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn 1884 oil painting by Eugène Ernest Hillemacher depicts English physician and scientist Edward...
How the word ‘voodoo’ became a racial slur
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 months agoShows, movies and day-to-day language promote myths about voodoo that reinforce more than a century of stereotypes and discrimination, writes a scholar...
What AMLO Could Learn From the 19th Century Mexican Journalist He Idealizes
Time via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCatarino Erasmo Garza in 1894. Credit - Alamy Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)...
