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Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in the 1990s. Is a repeat likely in Ukraine today?
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Since breaking from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has wavered between the influences of Moscow and the West, surviving scandal and conflict with its democracy intact. Now it faces an existential threat.
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It was under control. And then it wasn't. In her new book Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, VIdya Krishnan shows how "we repeat the same disease-spreading mistakes over and over."
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The San Antonio Museum of Art exhibit, "Nature, Power, and Maya Royals: Recent Discoveries from the Site of Buenavista del Cayo," displays artifacts of Maya royalty that were excavated by a team of archeologists from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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TV favors the young — but Betty White only got more famous as she got older. White's career began in the earliest days of television, and she was active until her death at the age of 99.
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These days, a New Year's Eve celebration doesn't feel complete without one thing: a countdown. But that ritual to ring in the new year isn't as old as you might think.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gayle Jessup White about her book, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy.
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The performance of Jesse Owens and the other Black American athletes who competed was seen as a rebuke to Hitler and Nazi Germany's notions of white superiority.
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The United States’ founding documents tout liberty and freedom, but the country’s painful history of racial violence must be reckoned with, according to one Texas public historian, if further acts of violence are to be averted.
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Monica Muñoz Martinez’s research on state-sanctioned violence against Mexicans and Mexican-Americans on the border in the early 20th Century has landed her in the national spotlight. The historian and University of Texas at Austin professor is among this year’s MacArthur Fellows.