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They were "recycled" to build houses, roads and gardens in Brest, Belarus.

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You go to a high school named after a man who fought to subjugate you.

Bryan Stevenson discusses his book, Just Mercy.

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"The white folks had sure brought their white to work with them that morning." -- Chester Himes

Less public history here, more public service.

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A haul of Viking treasure has been unearthed from a field in south west Scotland by an amateur using a metal detector.

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"It is a really important find; it enables us to get away from this Euro-centric view of a creative explosion that was special to Europe and did not develop in other parts of the world until much later," he said.

The discovery of 40,000-year-old cave paintings at opposite ends of the globe suggests that the ability to create representational art had its origins further back in time in Africa, before modern humans spread across the rest of the world

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Happy 130th birthday Eleanor Roosevelt!

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When self-made real-estate mogul, businessman and philanthropist Calvin Fackler "Cal" Johnson died in April 1925 his obituary made the front page of one Knoxville newspaper.

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A time capsule hidden for more than a hundred years at one of Boston's most popular tourist attractions was opened on Friday in Boston.

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A National Park Service volunteer browsing on eBay has made an astonishing discovery: a long-lost photo that park officials have described as a "pricele...

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Institution reverses smartphone ban, adds iPhone app, and plans to allow photography in permanent exhibits.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Born a slave in 1834 in Kentucky, Nancy Green was the first Aunt Jemima

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A closer look at a 1901 article titled "What Will Happen in the Next Hundred Years."

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Who was Buried at Grassmere Plantation? Shannon Chappell Hodge, Ph.D. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State University Do you ever watch crime-scene dramas on TV, like “B...

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Alabama's Magnolia mansion, located in Piedmont, is one of six known in the United States

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If the task is to think backward, to an important moment in history, here's a stunning way to do it: It's a jewel of a monument alongside a road in South Africa.

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One lesson of history is that even doing the right thing rarely works out.

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Historic Royal Palaces To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War, ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper conceived of a staggering installation of ceramic poppies planted in the famous dry moat around the Tower of London. Titled "Blood Sw