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...resolutely unlike anything Toronto - or most cities - has seen before. To begin with, it doesn't look much like the original building, which is actually two buildings: a yellow brick structure from 1912 that was overtaken in 1932 by a weighty limestone addition in a Beaux Arts style with trace elements of the Gothic and Baroque. Libeskind's Crystal bursts from the old museum's limestone in pointed shards of anodized aluminum. It touches the ground with the jagged footprint of a fever chart. Windows slice across the surface in narrow diagonal stripes or in large trapezoids that cut widely...
...Dawes Rolls are the most authentic document we have to trace ancestors. If we didn’t use those rolls, then what would we use? Should we just open the tribe up to anyone who says they have a great, great, great-grandmother who was a Cherokee princess? We wouldn’t have an Indian tribe anymore, would...
...Austin smiled. He folded his fingers together, and answered without a trace of sarcasm or condescension: “It was wonderful...
When archaeologists first started digging in Jamestown in the 1930s, they turned up more than half a million artifacts--but not a trace of the original fort. In fact, nobody expected to find it. Based on a handful of written eyewitness accounts and two maps, the James Fort was widely believed to have been built at the west end of Jamestown Island, close to the deepwater channel where the colonists presumably moored their ships. The river had washed away some 25 acres of that part of the island long ago, however, and most archaeologists figured the site of the fort...
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has won three awards, one honoring his pioneering idea to engage middle and high school students in history and science by encouraging them to trace their own ancestry. For his scholarship, Gates has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Wired magazine, and the National Arts Club. “I’m developing a new way to teach African-American history and science for middle and high school kids,” said Gates, the Fletcher University professor. “History will involve people learning how to do their...