Etruscan vases and Roman coins and mosaics worth tens of millions of dollars were looted and sold to U.S. museums and private collectors.
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Florida’s Department of Education, under recently revised standards to its Black history curriculum, requires middle school students to learn how the enslaved developed skills for their personal “benefit.” High school students also will be taught about the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, including “violent acts committed against and by African Americans.”
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate; Harris was the first Black woman on a major party’s presi…
KAHULUI, Hawaii — The wildfire that brought sheer devastation to Maui is especially heartbreaking for Hawaii because it struck one of its most…
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"All the places that are tourist areas, that are Hawaiian history, are gone, and that can't be replaced," a tour operator said.
In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
There's concerts, plays, art exhibits and a whole bunch of other stuff happening this weekend all around the Triad.
In 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device over …
WENTWORTH — The Museum and Archives of Rockingham County recently hosted more than 200 guests for the unveiling ceremony of a North Carolina C…
WENTWORTH — The Museum and Archives of Rockingham County recently hosted more than 200 guests for the unveiling ceremony of a North Carolina C…
In 1963, Britain’s “Great Train Robbery” took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds in banknotes.
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In a small South Carolina town, a community is getting ready to show off a little remembered part of the history of the segregated South. The …
In 1942, U.S. and other allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World…
Former President Donald Trump's latest indictment is another blow to his reputation.
"Of course, virtually all Americans value freedom. But they don’t necessarily define the term in the same way."
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RALEIGH — Last month, I joined dozens of other writers, scholars, activists, and leaders across the country to declare ourselves "Freedom Cons…
My shock quickly dissolved into disgust. Did he not know what he was doing, or was he just that brusque and obnoxious?
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RALEIGH — Last month I joined dozens of other writers, scholars, activists, and leaders across the country to declare ourselves “Freedom Conse…
Did the white man splashing in these sacred waters know what he was doing?
In 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside…