California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations
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Christian Super Bowl commercial outrages US conservatives
39 votes -
Does your Irish child speak with an American accent? The change may not last forever, linguistic expert says.
16 votes -
Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
12 votes -
More Americans are nonreligious. Who are they and what do they believe?
39 votes -
The misguided war on the SAT
30 votes -
Ohio pastor charged for housing the homeless
45 votes -
The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him
14 votes -
No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
41 votes -
Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
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A secret tunnel in a New York City synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers
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The insane machine that conquered Antarctica for the USSR - the Kharkovchanka
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The first US Army Christmas: George Washington and the Hessians
8 votes -
The divorce colony
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When the New York Times lost its way
23 votes -
The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of Venezuela (2019)
7 votes -
US recordings show how the Mormon church protects itself from child sex abuse claims
25 votes -
My country isn’t a nation (2021)
6 votes -
Journey to EPCOT Center: A symphonic history
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The New Jersey Hindu temple covered with 10,000 sculptures, marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built
12 votes -
Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu
21 votes -
Bowling in the 1700’s? - Full "Skittles" gameplay | Engineering America
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
13 votes -
The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed the way we use language
38 votes -
US President John F. Kennedy's "Peace Speech"
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Indigenous tribes saw the 'Ring of Fire' eclipse in a different light
16 votes -
A historical view of residential co-ops
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
24 votes -
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC
12 votes -
Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
15 votes -
Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
17 votes -
Added context to Benjamin Franklin's famous quote about trading liberty for safety
23 votes -
Baltimore Archdiocese files for bankruptcy before law on abuse lawsuits takes effect
14 votes -
Baltimore Archdiocese says it will file for bankruptcy before new law on abuse lawsuits takes effect
26 votes -
‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
13 votes -
Study shows US public defenders have significantly more clients than they can adequately represent
27 votes -
How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
21 votes -
Boatlift - The spontaneous evacuation of lower Manhatten on 9 11 2001 - narrated by Tom Hanks
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A miracle in Missouri? The nun who put her abbey on the map
7 votes -
Hit in DNA database exonerates man forty-seven years after wrongful rape conviction
30 votes -
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
8 votes -
American Stories: A large-scale structured text dataset of historical US newspapers
16 votes -
War against the children
13 votes -
Searching for Maura
9 votes -
Record $100 million settlement reached in lawsuits alleging torture, rape, atarvation at US Christian school
34 votes -
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Chuuk Lagoon's skull problem
5 votes -
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples
31 votes