Using the nom de plume Deirdre, California-born writer Mary “Mollie” Oyama Mittwer offered advice on changing gender roles and cross-ethnic relationships.

The TSA’s Secure Flight Program, instituted in 2009, makes gender into an object of state surveillance.

A collection of travel posters shared via JSTOR by Hong Kong Baptist University highlights Hong Kong’s unique place in the global imagination over the decades.

The proliferation of different types of computing machines in the 1950s enabled—or perhaps forced—the creation of programming languages.

Immigrants from Quebec held a distinct position in an American labor landscape in which experts viewed different “races” as being suited to different kinds of work.

Here’s what they took with them.

What started out as an experiment in digitizing under-used scholarship blossomed into an invaluable online educational resource for students and faculty alike.

To reduce Virginia’s use of the death penalty, Thomas Jefferson proposed using permanent disfigurement as a punishment for rape, polygamy, and sodomy.

The Isis Theater of pre-war Shanghai occupied a unique space as a Chinese-run cinema in an international “contact zone.”

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