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• SOURCE: CBS News (Video)
  1-28-15
  

  Famed SC civil rights protesters have convictions erased

  The convictions of nine South Carolina black men who integrated a whites-only lunch counter during the height of the civil rights movement were tossed out Wednesday during an emotional hearing before a packed courtroom.

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• SOURCE: JSTOR
  1-26-15
  

  A Fight About Taxing The Wealthy, A Century Before President Obama

  It’s a conversation that goes back more than 100 years, as M. Susan Murnane describes in a 2004 paper for Law & Social Inquiry.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-27-15
  

  All the Presidents’ Memorabilia

  Jordan M. Wright’s collection of political memorabilia has been unceremoniously sitting in boxes and crates behind the orange roll-up doors of storage units in Long Island City, Queens.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  1-12-15
  

  How the Martin Luther King estate controls the national hero’s image

  Selma director Ava DuVernay may well have taken more license than artistically necessary in the confrontational scenes between Martin Luther King Jr. and President Johnson. But inaccuracies in other significant parts of the film were forced upon DuVernay by copyright law.

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• SOURCE: dna India
  1-27-15
  

  Benjamin Franklin's life inspired me, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi

  "He was a politician, he was a political scientist, he was a social worker, he was a diplomat. And he came from an ordinary family. He could not even complete his education. But till today, his thoughts have an impact on American life."

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  1-28-15
  

  PTSD Found In Ancient Warriors

  A paper, written by Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes and Dr Walid Abdul-Hamid, suggests that the condition existed in the ancient world.

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• SOURCE: Press Release -- Historic Columbia
  1-28-15
  

  150 Years Later: Columbia, South Carolina wants the world to remember it also burned down in the Civil War

  Although often overshadowed in the popular imagination by the burning of Atlanta, Ga., the burning of Columbia, S.C. on the evening of February 17, 1865 was a major event in American history and a defining moment in the history of the state, city and the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: History Extra
  1-22-15
  

  ‘Bite-sized’ history textbooks used in the UK accused of ‘dumbing down’ the subject: should we be worried?

  History textbooks are designed for the “supposedly minimal attention spans” of today’s pupils, a prominent history teacher has said.

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• SOURCE: The History Blog
  1-27-15 (accessed)
  

  Tut’s beard glued back on like a bad craft project

  The false beard on the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun, probably the single most recognizable ancient artifact in the world, had come off and was reattached with a sloppy mess of irreversible epoxy glue.

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• SOURCE: AP
  1-27-15
  

  Smithsonian working to finalize deal for new site in London

  The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, is working to establish its first international museum outpost in London as that city redevelops its Olympic park, officials said Tuesday.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-23-15
  

  The voices of Auschwitz

  The 70th anniversary of the liberation of the notorious Nazi concentration camp could mark the last major commemoration for many Holocaust survivors

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-26-15
  

  What countries teach children about the Holocaust varies hugely

  Chinese textbooks borrow the language and imagery of the Holocaust and apply them to the Nanjing massacres of 1937 by the Japanese army. Japanese textbooks likewise adopt the language of the Holocaust in presentations of the devastation of cities by atomic bombs at the end of World War II.

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• SOURCE: WSJ
  12-26-14
  

  Civics Instruction Moves Up in Class

  More States Mandate Tests on the Subject Amid a Movement for Use of Citizenship Exam

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1-26-15
  

  New York's 1888 blizzard had smallpox, bonfires, and rubber boot shortages

  It was a terrifying experience for the people there, in part, because so many things went horribly, unexpectedly wrong.

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• SOURCE: Politifact
  1-25-15
  

  Professor says right to vote in U.S. ‘has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship’

  "It is true that in the 18th and 19th centuries lots of people who were not United States citizens were voting at every level of government."

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-23-15
  

  For Auschwitz Museum, a Time of Great Change

  At the 60th anniversary, 1,500 survivors attended. This year, on Tuesday, about 300 are expected. Most of them are in their 90s, and some are older than 100.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-23-15
  

  Whose Tomb? Greece Wonders

  Alexander the Great’s Legacy Stirred Up by Excavation

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-22-15
  

  A Scorsese Documentary on Bill Clinton Is Stalled

  The project is now indefinitely shelved, partly because Mr. Clinton insisted on more control over the interview questions and final version than Mr. Scorsese was willing to give.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-22-15
  

  Mystery Of Ancient 'Kennewick Man' Skeleton May Soon Be Solved

  Scientists have offered lots of opinions about the 9,500-year-old skeleton, but no one could figure out for sure who he was and where he came from. That's about to change, thanks to DNA analysis of the skeleton now under way in Denmark.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  1-20-15
  

  Obama to visit Selma for 50th anniversary of civil rights marches

  Obama will visit the small southern town on March 7 as part of his administration's efforts to highlight the Voting Rights Act of 1965.