Tag: history
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Harvard’s motto, Veritas, inscribed on gates, doorways, and sculptures all over campus, demands of us truth. https://legacyofslaveryreport.harvard.edu/ more ›
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When the extent of the university’s involvement with slavery was unearthed, a scholar tracking descendants of enslaved workers was suddenly fired https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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History of carnatic artists – Download as a PDF or view online for free https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/history-of-carnatic-artists/11932692 more ›
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In the final decade of his life, Dieter Scharf – scion of one of Germany’s great collecting dynasties – filled his Hamburg villa with exceptional sub-Saharan sculpture. Fifty of these… more ›
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The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology. These heartbreaking stories, Hirschfeld wrote in The Sexual History of… more ›
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Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then… more ›
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It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/09/upshot/covid-lockdown-five-year-charts.html more ›