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How Bookbinders Helped the Nazis Track Holocaust Victims
Bookbinders and restorers in the 1930s and '40s used their craft to help the Nazi regime create a database that was used to persecute and kill Jews and others who were deemed racially impure, a British researcher has found.
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Antiques auction selling neck shackles accused of 'profiting from slavery'
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An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people in Zanzibar has been accused of "profiting from slavery".
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Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration is returning to Independence Mall in Philadelphia
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- An exhibit detailing the lives of nine people enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia is being reinstalled on Thursday, despite an ongoing legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.
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Trump Hit With Fresh Legal Fight After Bid to Rewrite History Failed Miserably
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President Donald Trump is facing a fresh legal challenge after his high-profile effort to reshape historical records failed.
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Donald Trump sued over bid to 'erase history' in National Parks
A coalition of organizations has filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior (DOI) over its removal of certain exhibits from National Parks as part of President Donald Trump's executive order on 'Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.
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Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues
WASHINGTON -- Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America's national parks.
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US groups sue to block Trump effort to rid parks of history, science information
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BOSTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Groups representing park conservationists, historians and scientists filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to prevent President Donald Trump's administration from scrubbing information from parks and monuments, after exhibits touching on topics like slavery and climate change were recently removed.
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Greece seeks to obtain Nazi execution photos listed for sale on eBay
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Greece has announced its intention to obtain photos that appear to show the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad in Athens during World War II, after the previously unknown pictures surfaced on eBay.
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Why would the IOC make available a t-shirt commemorating Adolf Hitler's Olympics?
LIVIGNO, Italy -- The International Olympic Committee has quietly removed the link to a t-shirt in its online store commemorating the 1936 Berlin Games that were held in Nazi Germany after a controversy bubbled up last weekend about their availability.
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Opinion | Jesse Jackson in three photos
Eugene Robinson is a former Post Opinions columnist.
To appreciate the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson's place in history -- to understand his role in expanding the Constitution's promise of freedom and opportunity to those of us once excluded -- let photographs be the starting point.
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Greenville native Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies at 84
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Greenville native and iconic American civil rights leader who worked alongside the Rev.
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Citing Orwell's '1984,' judge orders Trump administration to return slavery exhibits removed from Philadelphia museum | CNN Politics
A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell's novel "1984," ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia.
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Trump administration ordered to restore George Washington slavery exhibit it removed in Philadelphia
An exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington must be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump's administration took it down last month, a federal judge ruled on Presidents Day, the federal holiday honoring Washington's legacy.
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From One President to Another, a Love Letter With an Edge
For American politicians, there is nothing more uncontroversial than a Presidents' Day tribute to George Washington, the upright Virginian who may (or may not) have chopped down that cherry tree but otherwise stands as the embodiment of leadership and virtue.
