Martha Tucker, 94, Tries On the Wedding Dress Jim Crow Denied Her
Originally published 2022-09-29. In 2021, at the age of 94, Martha Mae Ophelia Moon Tucker walked into a bridal shop in Birmingham, Alabam...
History & Culture
The past survives in documents, objects, places and the stories people pass down. Explore historical events and cultural traditions with attention to their context: who left the evidence, whose experiences it records and how later generations understand its meaning.
DNA From Sitting Bull's Hair Confirms Ernie LaPointe's Ancestry
First published September 28, 2022. Yes. In October 2021, a team led by geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen confirm...
Juukan Gorge: How Rio Tinto Destroyed 46,000-Year-Old Rock Shelters
Originally published 2022-06-17. On 24 May 2020, the mining company Rio Tinto set off explosives at Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of ...
Dunblane Families' Letter to Parkland Students and UK Gun Reform
Originally published 2022-06-07. When nineteen children and two teachers were shot dead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on 24 M...
Dinosaur-Like Legs in Chicken Embryos: What the Fibula Study Found
First published June 5, 2022. Photo: chicken embryo, Graeme Campbell/Wikimedia In 2016 a team at the University of Chile reported that th...
Amazon Lidar Reveals the Cities of the Casarabe
From above, an ancient earthwork may look like little more than a change in the ground. Bring thousands of precise height measurements toget...
Veteran Abortion-Rights Activists React to the Roe v. Wade Leak
Originally published 2022-05-08. In May 2022, after Politico published a leaked draft opinion showing that the US Supreme Court was prepar...
UC Native American Opportunity Plan: Who Qualifies and What It Pays
First published May 6, 2022. Since fall 2022, the University of California has covered in-state tuition and the Student Services Fee for s...
Biden's 2022 Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Statement
Originally published 2022-04-29. On 24 April 2022, Armenian Remembrance Day, US President Joe Biden issued a written statement honouring t...
Holocaust Survivors' Descendant Shelters Ukrainian Refugees in Warsaw
Originally published 2022-04-24. When Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine sent families fleeing west in early 2022, Jan Gebert, a ...
Yannis Vasilis Parharidis and Turkey's 1934 Surname Law Case
Originally published 2022-04-15. In April 2022, Greek City Times reported that a court in the Black Sea town of Bafra, in Turkey's Sa...
Chankillo: Peru's 2,300-Year-Old Solar Observatory Explained
The Fortified Temple at Chankillo, the hilltop enclosure above the Thirteen Towers. Photo: Janine Costa/AFP via Getty Images.
Marinos Ritsoudis, the Greek Officer Who Refused to Sail in 1999
First published March 23, 2022. Marinos Ritsoudis, the Greek naval officer whose refusal to sail during the Kosovo war made him a celebrat...
Sumela Monastery DJ Video: Why Greece Protested in 2022
Originally published 2022-02-11. In early February 2022, a video filmed inside the Sumela Monastery, the cliffside Orthodox Christian mona...
When Harry Met Santa: Norway's Gay Santa Christmas Advert Explained
First published December 24, 2021. "When Harry Met Santa" is a Christmas advert released on 22 November 2021 by Posten Norge , ...
Baby Yingliang: A Dinosaur Embryo Curled Inside Its Egg
The scientific community is in awe at a dinosaur egg that has been discovered to hold a near-perfect embryo.
Pope Francis Admitted Priests and Bishops Abused Nuns: What We Know
First published December 20, 2021. Yes. In February 2019 Pope Francis publicly confirmed that Catholic priests, and even some bishops, ha...
Oldest Denisovan Fossils Found in Siberia's Denisova Cave
Originally published 2021-12-08. In November 2021 a team led by archaeologist Katerina Douka of the University of Vienna announced the old...
First Americans Museum: Living Stories of 39 Tribal Nations
A museum object has more than a material and a date. It can carry relationships: with its maker, with the people who used it, and with the d...
Wari Human Sacrifice in Peru: The Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá Burials
Originally published 2021-11-08. Photo: A human skeleton excavated at Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá. Credit: Edgar Bracamonte Lévano. At Hua...
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Originally published 2017-12-02. "If you love her, don't destroy her" is the title of a widely shared 2017 letter by the Leb... -
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