Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and granddaughter of African American seamstresses, Lowe designed the wedding dress worn ...

A guitar played by Jewish teenager Nina Simon of Skopje, Yugoslavia. A shortwave radio that once belonged to Raphael Ahav of ...

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For a deminer, an object found in the ground usually represents a lethal threat. For David Simonyan, however, the soil of ...

Since 2016, the University of California, Berkeley professor has mobilized students to preserve LGBTQ+ stories on one of the ...

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In the Cairo Museum sits a strange object carved from schist stone — a 5,000-year-old artifact that resembles nothing else from its time. Called the Schist Disk, it’s so precisely made that engineers ...

While hundreds of Texans gathered in November to celebrate the much-anticipated reopening of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site after a two-year, $54 million renovation, Amanda Cagle was ...