The Mystery of Gene Bearden A vexing case of stolen valor

"Dropped a bombshell."

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"The Crown meets The West Wing."

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"Silent Unseen.”

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The Hardest Part Of History To Tell Is How It Felt | Defector I had already done the hard part that night: getting my kids to sleep. It was dark now, May 20, 2022, one of the last cool evenings before summer hit central Indiana. I told my wife I was going on a w...

"Mace on my keychain."

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Rethinking the Civil Rights Movement Last night I gave this talk to the Princeton Adult School about the connections between the civil rights movement of the 1960s and similar struggles in our own time, pulling together a few things I've...

"Looms incredibly large."

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"One of history’s classic sagas of adventure."

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“I Was Detected by My Laugh”: The Brief Military Career of Margaret Cathrine Murphy - The Journal of the Civil War Era CW: sexual violence and self-harm On May 17, 1863, Margaret Cathrine Murphy found herself in an unlikely situation: being interrogated as a spy while imprisoned in Annapolis. As she explained, she was...

"Warranted promotion."

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"Life and literary legacy."

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Texas court overturns sentence for man on death row for nearly 50 years Clarence Curtis Jordan was convicted in 1978 but hadn’t had a lawyer for over 30 years

“Incompetent.”

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"The lost world of working-class London."

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The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain As populations flocked to city centres in the 19th century, church cemeteries began to overflow with the dead. Roger Luckhurst exhumes the history of this period, when anatomists fuelled a body-snatching trade led by “resurrection men” and reformers sought alternatives to the toxic urban graveyards and their pestilent fumes.

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"Manipulated slavery’s place in Washington’s story."

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The Mansion, the Heiress, the Jewel Heist, and Me: A Bel-Air Fairytale Sixty-five years ago, my grandfather masterminded a robbery at a historic Los Angeles estate. Decades later, Carla Kirkeby—who lived in that house and discovered the theft of her parents’ jewels as a ...

"Stormy."

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"Curious tales, madcap musicians."

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Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

"Not sharing them anymore."

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"Vision of solidarity."

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Building Brasília - JSTOR Daily A twentieth-century experiment in urban planning promised progress—but carried immense financial and human costs.

"Nowhere."

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"Remade national belonging."

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Frequently asked questions about the missing Georgetown Metro station Following the 20th anniversary of Zachary Schrag’s The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, and the 50th anniversary of the first Metrorail service, Schrag offers his best answers ...

"Do not regret."

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"After the Bronze Age collapsed."

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Ten years after the Panama Papers, enablers and tax cheats are still being brought to justice - ICIJ A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.

"Ten years in the making."

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"Enduring power of hope and love."

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The Young Avengers Who Fought the U.S. War Machine in Their Underwear With thousands of soldiers dying in Vietnam, a group of friends in New York devised a plan to save lives.

"Not as secure as they think."

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"Tale of upheaval and betrayal."

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"The story of an era defined by opulence."

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No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English Wander down a small alley off London’s Fleet Street and you’ll find a pub with a crooked, creaky charm. Its black and white sign says “Rebuilt 1667,” the year after the Great Fire gutte…

"Pseudo-archaic."

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"Defined by its survival and reinvention."

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Chávez abuse investigation tapped Wayne State archive A Detroit archive holds records tied to new allegations involving César Chávez.

Go #archives!

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This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write

"Lindenblatt was dying."

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"The secret history of hues."

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