Social Movements, Rights & Identity

2+ hour, 16+ min ago   (133+ words) Narratively The Sunday Epic: The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz From a cold cell in San Francisco Bay, 23-year-old John Trudell became an unlikely voice for Native Americans—and one of the FBI’s most feared activists. The Pirate Radio…...

3+ hour, 42+ min ago   (240+ words) “We have observed a deliberate attempt to distract the public with falsehoods against a family whose history and pedigree in Lagos State is so well documented and preserved,” the statement read. The archives describe the Rhodes-Vivours as a multi-generational Lagos…...

4+ hour, 2+ min ago   (57+ words) Join the Library as we celebrate our 230th anniversary! Offline Chat with Special Collections or email us at [email protected] For more information about any of these items, or to request a transcription of text in any of the images, please email…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (924+ words) A new radiocarbon study finds that the fortified villages of northern Spain were abandoned in less than a hundred years around 400 BC, and that the exodus began in Asturias. The villages that replaced them took at least two centuries to…...

10+ hour, 33+ min ago   (195+ words) No. But this Columbus Day, it’s important to know the rest of the story. This analysis is free, but with Premium Membership you get MORE. Join today. NOTE: The Woke tide may have receded a bit, but all this still…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (188+ words) By the late 1960s, the satellite imagery, and consequently the purpose of the submarine base at Olenya Guba, was much clearer. A number of Golf- or Hotel-class ballistic missile submarines (SSB) can be seen at the piers, with their distinctive, large…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (270+ words) The exchange of wanted persons between the UK and the US is a contentious issue and has been for more than 200 years. Aghast at surrendering a supposed US citizen without legal protection, a group of anti-British Democratic-Republican Party members under…...

14+ hour, 5+ min ago   (1016+ words) Americans are commemorating the 25th anniversary of 9/11, remembering the shock, the dead and the sweeping consequences of the al Qaida attacks on symbols of US might and prosperity. The milestone will bring memorial rituals – wreath-laying, flag-flying, moments of silence, vigils and…...

17+ hour, 11+ min ago   (561+ words) From the divine bloodlines of ancient Egypt to the genetic consequences of dynastic marriage, the history of consanguinity reveals how power can challenge the boundaries imposed by nature and law. “Naturae enim iura sunt immutabilia.” “For the laws of nature…...

1+ day, 14+ min ago   (364+ words) America is a country of immigrants who each have a story to tell. Why did they come? When did they come? What was life like when they first arrived? Over the last few months, I have been researching the story…...