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Who Was Charles Curtis, the First V.P. of Color?

A member of the Kaw Nation, Curtis served under Herbert Hoover, but he left a troubling legacy on Native American issues

Archaeologists Find Rare Statue

The sculpture may depict an elite ruler or a fusion of a goddess and a female leader

One Teacher Challenged Nativist Laws

In the wake of World War I, rabid anti-German sentiment led to the arrest, later deemed unjust by the U.S. Supreme Court, of Robert Meyer

A Doomed Arctic Expedition and Other New Books

These five January releases may have been lost in the news cycle

How This Brave Young Woman Saved Danish Jews From Nazis

Henny Sundø is a pivotal figure in the history of WWII Danish resistance. In 1943, aged just 19, she risked it all to make a daring journey in her boat, Gerda III, to rescue as many Jews as she could

Who Was Charles Curtis, the First V.P. of Color? — Who Was Charles Curtis, the First V.P. of Color?

A member of the Kaw Nation, Curtis served under Herbert Hoover, but he left a troubling legacy on Native American issues

Archaeologists Find Rare Statue — Archaeologists Find Rare Statue

The sculpture may depict an elite ruler or a fusion of a goddess and a female leader

One Teacher Challenged Nativist Laws — One Teacher Challenged Nativist Laws

In the wake of World War I, rabid anti-German sentiment led to the arrest, later deemed unjust by the U.S. Supreme Court, of Robert Meyer

A Doomed Arctic Expedition and Other New Books — A Doomed Arctic Expedition and Other New Books

These five January releases may have been lost in the news cycle

How This Brave Young Woman Saved Danish Jews From Nazis — How This Brave Young Woman Saved Danish Jews From Nazis

Henny Sundø is a pivotal figure in the history of WWII Danish resistance. In 1943, aged just 19, she risked it all to make a daring journey in her boat, Gerda III, to rescue as many Jews as she could

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