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Coming Soon, a Century Late: A Black Film Gem After years of research, a historic find has emerged: what MoMA curators say is the earliest surviving footage for a feature film with a black cast.

The discovery that complicated the history of sex change operations "Eight pages long, with three illustrations of the child’s anatomy, the pamphlet may describe one of the earliest instances of sex-change surgery."

NYT identifies the person who exposed Gary Hart's philandering In a long piece in the NYT Magazine, Matt Bai reports on "How Gary Hart’s Downfall Forever Changed American Politics."

Decades After Trinity Nuclear Test in New Mexico, U.S. Studies Cancer Fallout The physicist, Joe Shonka, said he was surprised during his research at how close residents lived to the Trinity blast—in some cases within 20 miles.

Lawrence Of Arabia's Hand-Drawn, WWI Map Is Up for Auction It shows his route through the desert of Saudi Arabia in the spring of 1917 amid the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

Thousands Of FBI Documents About Civil Rights Era Destroyed By Flooding It's just been revealed that thousands of COINTELPRO documents were destroyed in Hurricane Sandy.

Ancient Egyptian Woman with 70 Hair Extensions Discovered When archaeologists uncovered her remains they found she wore "a very complex coiffure with approximately 70 extensions fastened in different layers and heights on the head."

Europeans drawn from three ancient 'tribes' The modern European gene pool was formed when three ancient populations mixed within the last 7,000 years.

Is it time to remember (finally) Albert Gallatin? He’s the founding father everybody’s forgotten He was the longest serving Treasury Secretary in US history.

Senate has a secret book of rules The document has never been available to the public — until now.

How the Vikings Saved Europe and Got a Terrible Reputation History teaches us that the Vikings were brutal, thieving invaders, but much of that history was written by Viking victims: European monks. New evidence says otherwise.

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Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore Roosevelt "Though exciting to watch, Burns’s cinematic homage muddles the history."

What Ken Burns Doesn't Understand about the Roosevelts In realizing the “personal” Roosevelts, something of the “public” is lost.

A call for historians to do macro history “Take it big!” Tackle major issues.

Colorado school board, worried about the new AP framework, wants to make sure high school kids are taught patriotic history Jeffco School Board Member Julie Williams proposes to create a committee to make sure U.S. History is being taught correctly in high school.

Texas Moves To Override New AP History Course Texas on Wednesday moved to require its high school students to learn only state-mandated curriculum — not be taught to the national test.

University of Illinois Bigwig to Native American Studies scholar Jean O’Brien: Drop Dead "OK, University of Illinois Board of Trustees chair Chris Kennedy did not exactly say that to University of Minnesota Native American Studies scholar Jean O’Brien, who had written to express her distress over the Steven Salaita #HireFire."

2 of 21 MacArthur Fellows for 2014 are historians Pamela O. Long is a historian of science and technology. Tara Zahra is a historian of modern Europe.

Why we're still fighting over U.S. history There’s trouble afoot in Texas, where a recent watchdog review of proposed new social studies textbooks for Grades 6-12 has found a whole slew of problems.

‘The Power Broker’ Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece Forty years ago today, Caro’s magisterial 1,296-page life of New York master builder Robert Moses rewrote the rules of biography.

Pro-Israel groups going after federal support of Middle East Studies "We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the misuse of federal funds under Title VI of the Higher Education Act (“HEA”). "