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How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 hours agoOn October 27, 1815, Prospect Robbins arrived by boat at the point in the alluvial swamps where the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers meet. Both surveyors were veterans—Brown a captain, Robbins ...
How Saving Private Ryan's D-Day sequence changed the way we see war
BBC News· 5 days agoToday marks 80 years since the momentous World War Two Allied operation – and back in 1998, Steven...
Actor-playwright Biko Eisen-Martin takes on legacies of Tupac and Biggie
CBS News· 2 days agoTupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls) are hip hop legends, but actor and...
How to hire a spy
The Economist· 5 days agoGEOFFREY TANDY was not sure why he had been summoned for war work in 1939. Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre in the second world war, had asked for an expert in cryptograms (encrypted ...
Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Nee Baldwin? Nay!
Washington Post· 4 days agoEvery week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical...
Discover the artists shortlisted for London's transatlantic slavery memorial
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSix artists have been shortlisted to create a London memorial to the victims of the transatlantic...
Review: "West Cork Railways" by Chris Larkin
Irish Central· 1 day agoStand on the railway platform they embarked on their initial road to immigration? One hundred years ago, the West Cork Railway was in its heyday. The...
Following in Du Fu's footsteps
China Daily· 5 days agoSince the late 1970s, British historian, author and broadcaster Michael Wood has been traveling the world, sharing his passion for history and the stories of civilizations ...
Biden’s D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era – KION546
KION 46 Salinas· 6 days agoThe alliance has a new sense of mission in opposing another war started by a tyrant bent on...
Enslaved couple recognized by plaques, student research in Longmeadow - The Reminder
The Reminder· 5 days agoTwo concrete stones inlaid with brass plaques mark the lives of Phillis and Peter, an enslaved...
