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Notre-Dame Reconstruction Status: What We Know and What Rebuild Means

Status Updates

After the April 2019 fire, the question “did they rebuild Notre-Dame” can be answered yes: reconstruction is underway and the structure is being restored to its historic for...

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40 Acres and a Mule: What Was Promised, Who Got It, and Why It Still Matters

Celebrity Profiles

“Forty acres and a mule” is the shorthand for an unkept promise at the end of the U.S. Civil War: land and a working animal to help freed people support themselves. In 1865,...

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