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Inaugural Parade for President John F. Kennedy

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The History of Military Parades in the U.S.

Displays of military might aren't common in modern America outside of wartime

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Study Reveals Deep Shortcomings With How Schools Teach America's History of Slavery

Southern Poverty Law Center's recent report identifies key problems when it comes to educating students on slavery—and offers guidance on how to fix them

Early Briton Had Dark Skin and Light Eyes, DNA Analysis Shows

The study of 'Cheddar Man' adds to a growing body of research that highlights the complexities of human skin color evolution

New York slave market about 1730

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Database Sheds New Light on New York's Historic Ties to Slavery

A new index contains searchable records of slavery from birth registrations to runaway slave advertisements

A man uses a mobile phone to photograph flowers placed on the names of concentration camps during the annual ceremony on Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 12, 2018.

Poland's President Signs Highly Controversial Holocaust Bill into Law

The bill criminalizes expressions like “Polish death camps” and makes it illegal to suggest that the Polish people were complicit in the Holocaust

A panel from the newly found tomb

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Tomb of 5th Dynasty Priestess Found in Egypt

The 4,400-year-old burial chamber includes well-preserved wall paintings, including an image of a monkey dancing in front of an orchestra

Women stand in gutter for a poster parade organized by the Women's Freedom League to promote the suffrage message.

Stories of Forgotten Suffragettes Come Alive in New Exhibition

The Museum of London's "Votes for Women” show marks 100 years since women were first granted the right to vote in Britain

Laser Scans Reveal 60,000 Hidden Maya Structures in Guatemala

Houses, fortifications, pyramids and causeways were among the discoveries

The Museum at FIT tweeted about its "Black Fashion Designers" exhibition drawn from its permanent collection.

In Honor of Black History Month, Cultural Institutions Are Sharing Archival Treasures

The best of the U.S. National Archive's #ArchivesBlackHistory

Young Tourist Finds 90-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossil at Colombian Monastery

Palaeontologists were first alerted to the fossil by a 10-year-old tourist

Stone Tool Discovery in India Raises Questions About Spread of Ancient Technology

The tools may suggest that humans dispersed from Africa earlier than previously believed. But not all experts agree

Truck tracks on the Nasca lines

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Truck Driver Leaves Tire Tracks Over Peru's Ancient Nasca Lines

Three of the Unesco World Heritage site's enigmatic glyphs were harmed, but authorities believe they can repair the damage

Emery Walker photograph of damage to the painting of Thomas Carlyle by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt, 1877.

See the Portrait Slashed by a Butcher's Cleaver During Height of Women's Suffrage Movement

In an act of protest, the London National Portrait Gallery work was damaged in 1914. It returns to mark 100 years of the Representation of the People Act

In Nilsson’s reconstruction, the teenager looks skeptical—and steely.

Experts Reconstruct the Face of a Mesolithic-Era Teenager

She was buried in a cave in central Greece around 9,000 years ago

Battle of Clontarf, Hugh Frazer, 1826

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Social Network Analysis Weighs in on Debate Surrounding One of Ireland's Most Famous Battles

Researchers test it out on a medieval epic to investigate whether the Battle of Clontarf was fought against the Vikings or was part of an Irish civil war

The ochre "crayon"

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One of the World's Oldest "Crayons" Colors in Details of the Mesolithic World

An interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and physicists came together to discover the purpose of the ancient bit of sharpened red ochre

The "Saucy Jacky" postcard

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Were the Jack the Ripper Letters Fabricated by Journalists?

Linguistic analysis indicates at least two of the most infamous letters were likely written by the same person—and that person was not the Ripper

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Artificial Intelligence Takes a Crack at Decoding the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript

But medieval scholars are skeptical about this latest attempt to decipher the world's "most mysterious book"

AP file photo of musician Coco Schumann taken on August 16, 1997.

Coco Schumann, the Holocaust Survivor who Played Jazz at Auschwitz, Dies at 93

The Berlin native returned to the city after the war and became renowned for playing the electric guitar

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British Author Takes Fresh Look at the Black Dahlia Murder

Piu Eatwell's recent true crime book on the case suggests that one-time suspect Leslie Dillon was the killer of Elizabeth Short in the unsolved 1947 murder

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