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America’s Founders Valued Higher Education
Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...
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Site of 18th-Century School for Black Students, Hidden in Plain Sight, Emerges in Virginia
The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...
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Capes, tailcoats, and cravats: Dior gets its teeth into Dracula chic
The gothic 19th-century inspiration was clear in the show, with capes, tailcoats and tweeds, waistcoats and Victorian high ...
18th century artifacts get room with a view at Fort Ligonier Museum
A place for everything and everything in its place applies equally to spontoons and shards. Thanks to a new ...
Jonathan Anderson's Dior Homme Debut Is All About Prep
The collection was chock full of academic references and historical reverence, with a wink to Dior house codes.
Archaeologists Excavated One of America's Oldest Schools—and Found a Secret Cellar
The Williamsburg Bray School is one of the oldest schools in the United States to educate Black students. Archeologists ...
Storms in France leave 2 dead, 17 injured and cause parliament to spring a leak
Two people were killed and 17 injured during torrential storms in France that toppled trees, flooded Paris streets and caused parliament’s roof to spring a leak as the prime ...