A clash of cultures at Boston’s City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city’s years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren
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Odyssey’s End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca
A British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island to which Homer’s wanderer returned
After more than 400 years, a fort built by conquistadors in the Carolinas has finally been found
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Secrets of the Range Creek Ranch
Archaeologists cheered when Waldo Wilcox’s spread was deeded to the state of Utah, believing that it holds keys to a tribe that flourished - then vanished
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Education experts help children, their teachers, parents and grandparents get the most out of a museum visit - real or virtual
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How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
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Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006
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South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he’ll one day shower their remote island with riches
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A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life
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Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago
Momentous or merely memorable
Readers respond to the November issue
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Franklin’s 300th birthday this month reminds us of common ideals and artifacts that reflect themfrom a simple suit to an iconic lunch counter
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Once upon a time, Miss America reigned supreme
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As his army faltered and his cabinet bickered, Lincoln determined that “we must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.” In 1862, he got his chance
December anniversariesmomentous or merely memorable
The secret diary of William Clark
The Grand Union Flag, Free At Last, and Lighting Up Broadway…
December anniversaries momentous or merely memorable
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Shaped by persecution, tribal strife and an unforgiving landscape, Iraq’s Kurds have put their dream of independence on hold-for now
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