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One of war photographer Robert Capa’s images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Robert Capa via National Museum of American History

May 10, 2024

A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D‑Day 80 years later

Frank A. Blazich Jr., Smithsonian Institution

Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.

A queer performer in Mozambique today. Courtesy Aghi/Outros Corpos Nossos

December 11, 2023

Queer life in Africa is also full of joy – remembering the carnival in Mozambique

Caio Simões de Araújo, University of the Western Cape

From the 1950s to the early 1970s the carnival was a place for queer expression and attracted performers from as far away as Brazil.

The late Sathima Bea Benjamin, jazz singer and composer, has a track on As-Shams Archive Volume 1. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images

April 27, 2023

South Africa’s hidden jazz history is being restored album by album

Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria

The legendary As-Shams jazz label has released the first of several compilation albums recovered from its archive.

Jeanette W. Jones holds the September 1957 issue of Ebony magazine, which features the article ‘Mystery People of Baltimore: Neither red, nor black, nor white. Strange ‘Indian’ tribe lives in world of its own.’ She is pictured at center, with her hand on her hip. Photo Sean Scheidt; author provided

October 9, 2020

Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them home

Ashley Minner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jessica R. Locklear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Two Lumbee scholars who have mined local archives in search of tribal history raise the profound question: Who has the rights to memories and artifacts of their people’s past?

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