Over two years, York trekked some 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Northwest and back, hunting, tracking, foraging and, at least once, voting…
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Opinion | When an Enemy’s Cultural Heritage Becomes One’s Own
Since its origins in the ninth century, Dadivank Monastery has withstood Seljuk and Mongol invasions, Persian domination, Soviet rule and, this fall, a second brutal…
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Police Chief Who Backed Charges Against Lawmaker in Confederate Statue Case Is Fired
The police chief in Portsmouth, Va., was fired on Monday, the same day that criminal charges she had supported against 19 people — including a…
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University of North Carolina Gives ‘Silent Sam’ Statue to Confederate Group
Ever since protesters toppled a Confederate statue known as Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last year, the college has…
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Rome’s New Rules: No Sitting on the Monuments (and No Wading Either)
Maiken Offerdal of Norway and her teenage sons were just sitting down on Rome’s famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday when they heard two shrieks of…
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Charlottesville Confederate Statues Are Protected by State Law, Judge Rules
A Virginia judge has ruled that local authorities in Charlottesville cannot remove two Confederate statues because they are war memorials protected by state law, a…
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Which L.G.B.T.Q. Figures Should Get Monuments in New York?
During the past year or two, under the mayoral administration of Bill de Blasio, New York City has been thinking more reflectively about what and…
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A War Memorial Is Being Expanded. Some Say It Whitewashes History.
Want more Australian news with a global perspective? Sign up here for the weekly Australia Letter. CANBERRA, Australia — In a small section of the…
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