A selection of items from the Papers of Tom Brokaw, including a Pan Am flight bag filled with press passes to historic events, a reporter’s notebook, candid snapshots from NBC News productions, Brokaw’s personal copy of the transcript of taped Nixon conversations, with Brokaw’s handwritten notes.

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Tom Brokaw’s Historic Cache of Papers Will Be Preserved

The broadcaster just donated his personal archive to the University of Iowa

An archaeologist studies remains of the Curtain theater's foundations.

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Shakespeare May Have Tailored “Henry V” for a Specific Theater

Archaeological digs at the Curtain theater suggest it looked very different from the Bard’s usual venues

Man Mound

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Get to Know Man Mound, One of 10 New National Historical Landmarks

The Interior Department has designated new landmarks including James Merrill’s house, a silent film studio and the only human-shaped effigy mound

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Perfectly Preserved Shipwreck Found in Lake Superior

A team has found the The J.S. Seaverns which sank in Michipicoten harbor in 1884 with its hull intact and dishes still on the shelves

The factory Oskar Schindler used to shelter over 1,000 Jews during World War II will finally become a Holocaust memorial.

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Oskar Schindler’s Factory Will Become a Holocaust Memorial

Long abandoned, the dilapidated factory is where the industrialist put over 1,200 threatened Jews to work during World War II

Memorials cropped up outside of Orlando's Pulse Nightclub after the gay club turned into the site of America's largest mass shooting.

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Orlando Will Buy Pulse Nightclub and Create a Permanent Memorial

The city announced plans to take over the now-vacant nightclub where 49 guest were gunned down

Archival image of one of the U-Bahn's "Dora" trains in service.

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See the Cold War-Era Trains Berlin Is Bringing Back Into Service

The “Dora” is returning to the tracks of the U-Bahn

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Europe’s Oldest Polished Axe Found in Ireland

The 9,000-year-old tool shows that Mesolithic people had sophisticated burial rituals and even cremated their dead

A replica of the lost Mark IV nuclear bomb at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada

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Diver Found Possible Inactive 1950 Nuke Off the Coast of British Columbia

The purported bomb was discovered by a man searching for sea cucumbers

A lobby card for Gunsaulus Mystery, a 1921 silent film written, directed and produced by Oscar Micheaux, an early black silent film auteur.

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Explore the Flickering, Forgotten Past of African-Americans in Silent Film

An estimated 80 percent of silent movies with all-black casts are thought to be lost, but a new project is making sure the people who made them aren’t

Confederate Memorial Day exercises at the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia.

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A Controversial Museum Tries to Revive the Myth of the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause”

The ideology has been used to whitewash slavery’s role in the Civil War for generations

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Today We Honor the Only Woman Who Ever Voted to Give U.S. Women the Right to Vote

100 years ago, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress

The historic St. Anne's Well after it was rediscovered and excavated.

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A “Cursed” English Well Has Been Rediscovered

An old photograph led archaeologists to the long-lost well

L.M. Montgomery published articles, short stories and poems over 500 times in her lifetime.

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New Digital Collection Unveils the Other Stories of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Creator

KindredSpaces brings together kindred spirits interested in the life and legacy of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dove

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Hi-Res Photography Reveals New Details of the Centuries Old Aberdeen Bestiary

Fingerprints, wear marks and other details show the beautiful manuscript was once a teaching tool, not a royal collectible

Walter Cronkite in 1985, four years after he retired from a 44-year-long career in television broadcasting.

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Five Things to Know About Walter Cronkite

Over four decades of TV broadcasting, “Uncle Walter” defined a nation’s news

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This Is What the World Looked Like the Last Time the Cubs Won the World Series

Here are 10 ways life was different in 1908

The Warryti Rock Shelter in the Flinders Range

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Aboriginal Australians Lived In Country’s Interior 10,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

Excavations at a rock shelter in the Flinders Range shows people were there 49,000 years ago, hunting megafauna and developing new tools

A 1933 Oil painting of the ill-fated aviator by Howard Chandler Christy.

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What to Make of Renewed Claims That Amelia Earhart Died as a Castaway

Reexamination of data from a 1940 skeleton, suggests that the long forearms may match those of the missing aviator

Argentinians look on as Marta Minují's 1983 Parthenon of books is removed with a crane. The artist will recreate her installation on a grander scale in Germany next year.

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An Artist Is Building a Parthenon of Banned Books

More than 100,000 books will become a monument to intellectual freedom in Germany next year

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