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Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

The National Trust's annual list includes Eatonville, the all-Black Florida town memorialized by Zora Neale Hurston, Alaska's Sitka Tlingit Clan houses, and the home of country singer Cindy Walker.
by Neda Ulaby

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Sign of the future: St. Paul officially brings back historic Rondo Avenue street name

Sign of the future: St. Paul officially brings back historic Rondo Avenue street name

Before the construction of Interstate 94 which drove a multi-lane wedge directly through the center of St. Paul’s historic Black neighborhood, there was a neighborhood called ‘Rondo.’ Mayor Melvin Carter unveiled the new sign.
by Peter Cox

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What a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of today’s pro-Palestinian encampment

What a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of today’s pro-Palestinian encampment

A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the pro-Palestinian protests currently happening at Columbia University.
by Mansee Khurana

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Prairie Island community trying to reclaim noose used in 1862 mass execution of Dakota men

Prairie Island community trying to reclaim noose used in 1862 mass execution of Dakota men

The Prairie Island Indian Community filed a claim through its Tribal Historic Preservation Office. The claim was made through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
by Peter Cox

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Hubert H. Humphrey could replace Henry Mower Rice in proposed congressional statue swap

Hubert H. Humphrey could replace Henry Mower Rice in proposed congressional statue swap

Minnesota lawmakers are weighing a resolution to ask that Humphrey’s likeness go into the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, replacing Rice’s statue, which has been on display for more than a century.
by Dana Ferguson

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Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day

Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day

Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered wildly unethical today in an effort to shore up the war effort.
by Terry Gross

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