Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps’ closure
Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...
Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of internment camps' closure in Cyprus
Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one ...
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‘Written in the Waters’ surfaces the untold stories of captive Africans lost at sea
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, as many as a thousand slave ships carrying captive Africans sank while crossing the ...
Birthright Citizenship - A Response to Barnett and Wurman
In a recent New York Times op ed, legal scholars Randy Barnett and Ilan Wurman offer a partial defense of President Trump's ...
A Jesuit-led effort for descendants of its former slaves seeks to atone for 'sinful' past
An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms ...
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Georgia Tech students dig into historical documents to connect people with enslaved ancestors
The students are working in their African American History class to connect with descendants ... very beginning with the arrival of a slave ship in 1806 in Charleston and a sale receipt ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships. More often than not ... donated to Yale ...
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Greece and Turkey – a Millennium of Warfare — and the Fading West
Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...
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Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel
Stealthily they made their way from Poland across Czechoslovakia, on to Austria, Germany and Italy, until they reached ships on the ... as he stood with the Bricha descendants on the riverbank ...
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The Curious Case of Rudolf Diesel’s Death
Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine in 1893. In 1913, he vanished from a ship. Did he jump? Was he pushed? Or was it ...
Owambe Black History Month Festival offers free events in Africatown
A new festival will celebrate the legacy and potential of the Africatown community this weekend, offering a four-day slate of free events. The inaugural Owambe Black History Month Festival is ...