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Spotted Trunkfish collected in the US Virgin Islands in 1871.
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Scientific Specimens Are Going Online, But Much Remains Hidden In Storage

Mar 27, 2021
From fish in jars to rare seeds and microbes, hundreds of millions of biological specimens are stored around the U.S., and caretakers are trying to make them accessible for future research.
Fifth Street

February 25, 2021

Feb 25, 2021
How Drag Culture Builds Community | A Review of Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert | The Imaginary Vegas That Saved My Sanity During the Pandemic | Media Sommelier
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KNPR's State of Nevada
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The Neon History Of Southern Nevada's Black Community

Feb 17, 2021

February is Black History Month, and the Neon Museum is celebrating with an emphasis during its tours on the parts of its collection connected to Black history.

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Fifth Street

January 21, 2021

Jan 21, 2021
Bringing Everyone In at Nuwu Art | History for (Ventriloquist) Dummies | The Inauguration Poet | Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration
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Fifth Street

January 7, 2021

Jan 07, 2021
Remembering Joe Neal | The Taste of Yaad | Why Airplanes Smell Weird | How Being a Las Vegan is Complicated
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Fifth Street

December 23, 2020

Dec 23, 2020
Bad Vegas Ideas | Nevada's Historic "Presidentess" | "Handsome Johnny" and the Mob | The Memes of 1911 | When Formula One Came to Vegas
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
The founder of Johns Hopkins University was discovered to be a slaveowner in contradiction to the long-held narrative that the philanthropist was an abolitionist.
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Johns Hopkins, Long Believed An Abolitionist, Actually Owned Slaves, University Says

Dec 10, 2020
Researchers found census records showing the entrepreneur and philanthropist owned slaves as late as 1850, contrary to the long-held belief that his family freed all slaves when he was a boy.
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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
The statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a 16th century Spanish conquistador, lies on the ground after it was pulled down by Indigenous people in Popayán, Colombia, earlier this year.
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U.S. Statue Removals Inspire Indigenous People In Latin America To Topple Monuments

Sep 30, 2020
The latest target was a statue of Sebastián de Belalcázar, a Spanish conquistador who founded two Colombian cities and led a military campaign that killed and enslaved thousands of Indigenous people.
Fifth Street

August 27, 2020

Aug 27, 2020
Desert Refuge | National Parks | Moby Grape | The Ballot and the Bird
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The City Observed
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A Farewell to Vickie's Diner

Aug 18, 2020

The small-town culinary heart of Old Vegas finally gives way to a gentrifying Downtown

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America Reckons With Racial Injustice
Protest organizer DAntjuan Miller stands by the granite pedestal that remains of a monument to Confederate Navy Adm. Raphael Semmes in Mobile, Ala. "It's like a weight that's lifted off now that it's gone," he says.
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In Alabama, A City Debates How To Depict Its Past In The Present

Jul 08, 2020
When the city of Mobile, Ala., took down a statue of a Confederate naval officer it sparked a conversation about what the statue meant, and how the city's Confederate history should be portrayed.
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Friday Photo
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Friday Photos: From the Ground Up

Jun 26, 2020

Snapshots of recent life in the valley, from the grass to the grassroots

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The Coronavirus Crisis
An illustration showing patients being brought to the hospital during Hamburg's 1892 cholera outbreak.
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What Hamburg's Missteps In 1892 Cholera Outbreak Can Teach Us About COVID-19 Response

May 06, 2020
Lesson No. 1: Have "proper precautions in place," says historian Richard Evans. And don't "try to hush it up." Thousands died in Hamburg after the government failed to acknowledge a cholera outbreak.
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See/Hear/Do
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Conversations to Keep You Company

Mar 30, 2020

Need some company while staying home? Here are some excellent podcasts for all tastes

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Code Switch
The Conestoga stand and face their final moments.
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How A Graphic Novel Resurrected A Forgotten Chapter In American History

Feb 26, 2020
In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.
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Nevada Yesterdays
John Wesley Powell
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John Wesley Powell

Nov 22, 2019

Lake Powell is named after someone who had a desire to explore the west – and that he did.

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Goats and Soda
Saint Augustine was among the saints who pushed some of the bans and policies that may have paved the way for a breakdown of extended family networks in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Western Individualism May Have Roots In The Medieval Church's Obsession With Incest

Nov 07, 2019
Researchers combed Vatican archives to find records of how ancient church policies shaped Western values and family structures today.
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National
People look on at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2016 at Seattle's City Hall. Seattle began observing Indigenous Peoples' Day two years earlier to promote the well-being and growth of Seattle's Indigenous community.
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Columbus Day Or Indigenous Peoples' Day?

Oct 14, 2019

More and more places in the United States are dropping Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, but the shift isn't happening without some pushback.

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National
Tour participants listen to guide Katie Merriman (center) outside the Malcolm Shabaaz Mosque as she speaks about the influence of Malcolm X on the Harlem community.
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Religious Walking Tour Maps Out The History Of Muslims In New York City

Oct 12, 2019
As she leads free walking tours through Harlem, Katie Merriman highlights the ways in which the history of Muslims is part of the history of New York City.
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National
Doyle's owner, Gerry Burke Jr., is selling the cafe's liquor license. The restaurant business has changed, and for Burke, the pub (shown here in 2015) is no longer viable.
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Bostonians Lament Loss Of 137-Year-Old Pub And Its Trove Of History

Oct 06, 2019
Doyle's Café has been in business since 1882, but the owner is closing up shop later this month. Locals are portraying this as yet another nail in the coffin of Boston history and tradition.
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National
The Cody Firearms Museum in Wyoming recently reopened after an extensive renovation that included bringing a more educational approach to guns and gun culture.
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Firearms Museum Focuses On Gun Safety, History And Culture

Aug 25, 2019
The Cody Firearms Museum in northwest Wyoming just got a makeover. It's moved away from being a monument to guns and toward being an educational space.
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Students return to the University of Virginia for the fall semester on August 19, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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History, Minus The Historian Herself

Jul 17, 2019
An academic's work went uncredited on 'Here & Now'; here's what happened.
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World
People hold portraits of Soviet leader Josef Stalin in December 2018 as they line up in Moscow to lay flowers at his grave.
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Amid 'Quiet Rehabilitation Of Stalin,' Some Russians Honor The Memory Of His Victims

Jul 08, 2019
A civic initiative is commemorating those who were murdered under the rule of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whom many Russians now admire for defeating Nazi Germany and making his nation a superpower.
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History
David Brion Davis accepts the National Humanities Medal from President Obama during a 2014 ceremony at the White House.
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David Brion Davis, Who Helped Remake The Study Of Slavery, Dies At 92

Apr 16, 2019
The historian's trilogy, The Problem of Slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among others. More than that, though, a colleague says Davis' work "shook up the field of history."
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World
The long-delayed opening of the House of Fates Holocaust museum in Budapest, whose entrance is marked by a Star of David, is expected this spring.
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Hungary's New Holocaust Museum Isn't Open Yet, But It's Already Causing Concern

Feb 08, 2019
The government-funded House of Fates, set to open this year, has been criticized by Holocaust survivors, scholars and others for presenting a distorted view of Hungary's role during the Holocaust.
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