How rural English women used scrapbooks to commemorate the death of Winston Churchill
Packed with newspaper clippings, drawings and handwritten reflections, WI community scrapbooks provide a glimpse into how ...
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A century ago, Chattanooga’s municipal organist debuted the $50,000 instrument inside Memorial Auditorium
Noted psychoanalyst Gertrude Steele Chambers has reached the end of her series of nine lectures on the subject of "The New ...
How many presidential pardons or sentence commutations have been granted to people from Illinois?
Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...
‘A literary event’: Sylvia Plath memorabilia can fetch as much as $1m. A new book reveals a treasure trove of material
Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 ...
‘We help our customers feel’: The retiring owners of Spokane’s oldest florist shop reflect on decades of service for Valentine’s Day
A bouquet, in any form, is an expression of emotions, said Susie Matteson, former owner of Peters and Sons Flowers and Gifts.
Opening up the Bird Rock vault: New project will showcase photos of the past
Community Council Vice President Joe Parker is working to display digitized photographs from Bird Rock’s ‘very rich history’ ...
A look back at the United States' checkered immigration history
In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...
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When York County built a home for children, poor people and those with disabilities
The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch.
Remains of U.S. soldier who vanished during WWII are identified
A soldier who went missing in action during an aquatic mission in World War II has been accounted for, military officials said Tuesday.
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They Won’t Let Sacco and Vanzetti Die
Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...
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After the collapse of the Assad regime, Syrians are working to preserve their country's heritage
The war, which erupted in 2011 ... the president of Heritage for Peace, tells The Art Newspaper, confirming that his team has observed illegal excavations since the regime change.
At Mother Bethel, Villanova professor previews ‘Last Seen,’ her book about how Black families searched for relatives sold during slavery
One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...