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Long before Netflix’s Cheer documentary and JoJo Siwa, big huge hair bows were a thing. And it wasn’t always girls who wore them.
Fariba Adelkhah at the paris Salon du Livre in 2010.
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Iran’s detention of Fariba Adelkhah, Roland Marchal and Kylie Moore-Gilbert is part of a growing trend of attacks against academic freedom.
The virus that causes COVID-19 seems able to spread to anyone, anywhere.
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While identifying a new disease by its place of origin seems intuitive, history shows that doing so can have serious consequences for the people that live there.
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The official naming of COVID-19 has the tone of a committee decision. Historically, names for diseases have not been quite so well thought out and were more likely to offend.
Two Marines in the Marine Corps’ 5th Division cemetery on Iwo Jima pay their respects to a fallen comrade.
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Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, being digitized 75 years after they were made, offer connections and lessons for Americans of today.
Protesters in Manchester, U.K., 1988.
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In the 1950s, ‘coming out’ meant quietly acknowledging one’s sexual orientation. Today, the term is used by a broad array of social movements.
African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are
denigrated — wrongly.
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African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are — wrongly — denigrated.
Joseph Morales and company in ‘Hamilton,’ the musical that opens to sold out shows in Toronto this month. The show highlights early ambition in America.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster portrayal of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most colourful founding fathers, opens this month in Toronto.
A patient is transferred to a new temporary hospital in Wuhan.
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The Chinese Communist Party has long used healthcare as part of its propaganda operation.
A “very small section’ of the Census Bureau, sometime between 1910 and 1930.
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The results of the 1920 census kicked off a bitter, decadelong political squabble. Could the same happen again in 2020?
Wuhan University Sakura Castle, one of the oldest in China with the city in the backdrop. December 2018.
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The strong crisis management in Wuhan will probe the capacity of the Chinese government to prepare adequately for pandemic and may test Xi’s rule.
The U.S. House of Representatives brought 11 articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson.
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Falsehoods about Andrew Johnson have become a staple of Republican arguments opposing the impeachment of Trump.
Roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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The Never Again Education Act is meant to make Holocaust education more prominent in America’s schools. A scholar of Holocaust studies explains why that’s necessary.
Prince performs at Minneapolis’ First Avenue nightclub in August 1983.
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Prince was a musical genius, but he didn’t come of age in a vacuum. A human geographer explains how Minneapolis’ unique musical culture nurtured and inspired the budding star.
A suffrage parade.
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In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.
Comedian, writer, historian: Terry Jones was a man of many parts and well loved in all his fields.
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The Monty Python star was also a highly respected author on Chaucer and the writer of a series of children’s history books.
Black names have changed over the centuries.
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A scholar disproves the long-held assumption that black names are a recent phenomenon.
The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.
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To confront colonialism, universities must open their archives and let communities see their pasts, eugenics and all.
Senator Huey Long at the Capitol in 1935.
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The very first scientific horse race poll, which took place 85 years ago, was shrouded in secrecy and may have changed history – even though it was faulty.
Your calendar dates back to Babylonian times.
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The Babylonians’ calendar was passed down from civilization to civilization.