Story of the week

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• SOURCE: The Root
  7-4-16
  

  Story of the Week: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem

  by Jason Johnson

  In the third, forgotten stanza, Francis Scott Key refers darkly to the members of the Colonial Marines, a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. 

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• SOURCE: Princeton University Press Blog
  5-11-16
  

  Story of the Week:  How Animals Have Been Used as Weapons

  by Tonio Andrade

  Before guided missiles, humans had few ways to attack their enemies remotely, so they tried using animals.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-23-16
  

  Story of the Week: The man who began campaigning against #OscarsSoWhite – 74 years ago

  by Jenny Woodley

  In 1942 a man called Walter White travelled from New York to Hollywood, armed with a letter of introduction from the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. His aim was to try to persuade filmmakers to positively portray African Americans in movies.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2-16-16
  

  Story of the Week: The man who developed a vaccination for smallpox

  by Andrew George

  Was his smallpox experiment really unethical?

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-5-16
  

  Story of the Week: The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

  by Helen King

  When virginity was a disease, sex (preferably marital) was the only lasting solution.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  12-6-15
  

  Story off the Week: The Revolution's Longest Love Story

  by Gil Troy

  The longest living American Revolutionary War veteran also had the longest marriage.

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  11-16-15
  

  Story of the Week: The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain

  by Sarah Laskow

  These grand buildings were meant to show off their cities’ bounty and to lure settlers to the otherwise foreboding plains.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-7-15
  

  The Man Who Gave Air Force One a Lift

  by Michael Beschloss

  The look of today’s presidential plane originated with a quiet collaboration between President John F. Kennedy and Raymond Loewy, who was perhaps the most accomplished commercial image and design expert of the post-World War II era.