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Ex-Child Bride Elissa Wall Seeks Millions From Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs

Elissa Wall, who was forced to marry her first-cousin when she was 14 years old, is suing Warren Jeffs and his church for millions.

By All That's Interesting • May 16, 2017

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Ex-Child Bride Elissa Wall Seeks Millions From Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs

Elissa Wall, who was forced to marry her first-cousin when she was 14 years old, is suing Warren Jeffs and his church for millions.

By All That's Interesting • May 16, 2017

Reliving The Civil Rights Movement, In 55 Powerful Photos

Perhaps the most simultaneously helpful and harmful thing that historians, writers, teachers, and Americans as a whole have done to the civil rights movement is to label it as such. A label as monolithic as “the civil rights movement” helpfully conveys just how pervasive were the wrongs that the movement...

By John Kuroski • May 16, 2017

Reliving The Civil Rights Movement, In 55 Powerful Photos

Perhaps the most simultaneously helpful and harmful thing that historians, writers, teachers, and Americans as a whole have done to the civil rights movement is to label it as such. A label as monolithic as “the civil rights movement” helpfully conveys just how pervasive were the wrongs that the movement...

By John Kuroski • May 16, 2017

Finding The Fittest: 35 Photos From The Heyday Of Eugenics

Though the world has tried to forget it, eugenics was a thriving, mainstream science in the years just before the Nazis made it taboo.

By Mark Oliver • May 16, 2017

Finding The Fittest: 35 Photos From The Heyday Of Eugenics

Though the world has tried to forget it, eugenics was a thriving, mainstream science in the years just before the Nazis made it taboo.

By Mark Oliver • May 16, 2017

25 Lomax Family Photos From The Archive Of American Folk Song

Between 1933 and 1950, John Lomax, Sr., his son Alan, and John’s second wife Ruby lugged a 315-pound phonograph recorder throughout the United States and the Caribbean on a mission to capture and preserve folk music in its myriad forms. It was a heroic expedition sponsored by the Archive of...

By Kellen Perry • May 13, 2017

25 Lomax Family Photos From The Archive Of American Folk Song

Between 1933 and 1950, John Lomax, Sr., his son Alan, and John’s second wife Ruby lugged a 315-pound phonograph recorder throughout the United States and the Caribbean on a mission to capture and preserve folk music in its myriad forms. It was a heroic expedition sponsored by the Archive of...

By Kellen Perry • May 13, 2017

44 Poignant Photos Of Ellis Island Immigrants That Convey The Hope And Hardship Of Coming To America

These turn-of-the-century photos of Ellis Island immigrants capture the diverse cultures and people that came to the United States in the search of something more.

By John Kuroski • May 11, 2017

44 Poignant Photos Of Ellis Island Immigrants That Convey The Hope And Hardship Of Coming To America

These turn-of-the-century photos of Ellis Island immigrants capture the diverse cultures and people that came to the United States in the search of something more.

By John Kuroski • May 11, 2017

New Device Invented By Six Female Undergrads Translates Text To Braille In Real Time

Tactile, the first invention of its kind to translate text to braille in real time, was created in 15 hours by six young women at MIT.

By All That's Interesting • May 11, 2017

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New Device Invented By Six Female Undergrads Translates Text To Braille In Real Time

Tactile, the first invention of its kind to translate text to braille in real time, was created in 15 hours by six young women at MIT.

By All That's Interesting • May 11, 2017

Dead Priest’s DNA Could Solve Nun’s Decades-Old Murder

Catherine Ann Cesnik's murder has been unsolved for 47 years. Police have now gathered DNA from a priest who had reason for wanting her dead.

By All That's Interesting • May 10, 2017

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Dead Priest’s DNA Could Solve Nun’s Decades-Old Murder

Catherine Ann Cesnik's murder has been unsolved for 47 years. Police have now gathered DNA from a priest who had reason for wanting her dead.

By All That's Interesting • May 10, 2017

The French Postcard: The Early 20th Century Equivalent Of “Playboy”

The turn of the 20th century brought with it a number of changes. The French Postcard was just one of many responses to them.

By Erin Kelly • May 8, 2017

The French Postcard: The Early 20th Century Equivalent Of “Playboy”

The turn of the 20th century brought with it a number of changes. The French Postcard was just one of many responses to them.

By Erin Kelly • May 8, 2017

The Story Behind The Photo Of David Kirby That Changed The World’s Perception Of AIDS

How a single photo by a photography student of David Kirby moved the world to a greater understanding of the AIDS pandemic.

By Richard Stockton • May 7, 2017

The Story Behind The Photo Of David Kirby That Changed The World’s Perception Of AIDS

How a single photo by a photography student of David Kirby moved the world to a greater understanding of the AIDS pandemic.

By Richard Stockton • May 7, 2017

Kids In Combat: 26 Photos Of The Civil War’s Child Soldiers

The bloodiest war in American history was often fought by child soldiers. The Civil War claimed 620,000 lives – nearly as many American casualties as every other war fought by the United States combined. And one out of every five people who enlisted to risk their lives fighting their fellow...

By Mark Oliver • May 6, 2017

Kids In Combat: 26 Photos Of The Civil War’s Child Soldiers

The bloodiest war in American history was often fought by child soldiers. The Civil War claimed 620,000 lives – nearly as many American casualties as every other war fought by the United States combined. And one out of every five people who enlisted to risk their lives fighting their fellow...

By Mark Oliver • May 6, 2017