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Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity

For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
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Emmett Till's Casket Goes to the Smithsonian

Simeon Wright recalls the events surrounding his cousin's murder and the importance of having the casket on public display
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Hazel Scott’s Lifetime of High Notes

She began her career as a musical prodigy and ended up breaking down racial barriers in the recording and film industries
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Real Places Behind Famously Frightening Stories

’Tis the spectral season, when darkness approaches sooner, and chilly temperatures bring folks around hearths--literally and figuratively--to tell ghost stories. Light your pumpkin and read about the real places behind some of the world’s classic spooky tales.
By Robin T. Reid

Jewish Songwriters, American Songs

Poet David Lehman talks about the brilliant Jewish composers and lyricists whose work largely comprises the great American songbook
By Jamie Katz

Roller Derby’s Sisterhood

Ithaca’s SufferJets may have ironic skate names and elaborate uniforms, but on the track, it’s all business
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A Rare Look at Tucker Cars

Collector David Cammack owns three of the 43 remaining cars in existence designed by Preston Tucker

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Over the course of the 40 years that the program has been on the air, Sesame Street has spawned versions in countries around the world By Abby Callard

By Megan Gambino

As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white By Richard B. Woodward

Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do. But what happens when the power shifts? By Lance Morrow

For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage By Amanda Bensen

Simeon Wright recalls the events surrounding his cousin's murder and the importance of having the casket on public display By Abby Callard

Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural? By Henry Adams

FDR's Stamps By G. Wayne Clough

Why surf the Web when you can live there? By Bob Brody

She began her career as a musical prodigy and ended up breaking down racial barriers in the recording and film industries By Karen Chilton

Two new exhibitions celebrate the enduring wares of ceramics designer and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood By Nancy Mann Jackson

’Tis the spectral season, when darkness approaches sooner, and chilly temperatures bring folks around hearths--literally and figuratively--to tell ghost stories. Light your pumpkin and read about the real places behind some of the world’s classic spooky tales. By Robin T. Reid

Poet David Lehman talks about the brilliant Jewish composers and lyricists whose work largely comprises the great American songbook By Jamie Katz

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Ithaca’s SufferJets may have ironic skate names and elaborate uniforms, but on the track, it’s all business By Rachel Dickinson

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Over the course of the 40 years that the program has been on the air, Sesame Street has spawned versions in countries around the world
By Abby Callard

As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer's philosophy was black and white
By Richard B. Woodward

Those who don't have power tend to make fun of those who do. But what happens when the power shifts?
By Lance Morrow