Articles with keyword "history"
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
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The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
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Livingstone in a New Light
Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.
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Of Stevedores and Book Slingers
Mention the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and what comes to mind are workers heaving bales along a waterfront, operating straddle carriers shipside, or driving winches above break bulk c
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Hey, Who You Callin' A Jacobin?
First of all, they are not even French. Second, they’re hardly household names.








