Had enough of European royals on TV? So have we. Expand your worldview with these shows and films that focus on leaders from other nations.
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FILM | “Journeys Through the Finger Lakes”
Abolition, Suffrage, and Flight. WXXI’s doc “Journeys Through the Finger Lakes” focuses on the region’s rich history and offerings, providing plenty of cause for geographical pride.
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Going online with cocktails, cannibals, and witches
With Rochester Cocktail Revival postponed, historian Maya Rook is filling the void with her History Happy Hour series online.
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Douglass statue time capsule contents badly damaged
Crews are moving the Douglass statue to a more prominent location in the park and they dug up the capsule earlier this week.
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Author Ibram X. Kendi traces America’s history of racist ideas and policies
Author Ibram X. Kendi argues that racist ideas, used to justify racist policies that are created out of economic and political self-interest, produce ignorance and hate, not the other way around. He also identifies a group between segregationists and anti-racists: Assimilationists, as he calls them, are well-meaning people who don’t think they are racist and […]
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St. Boniface is back in the South Wedge
A statue of a saint known for his eighth-century missionary excursions has almost completed its long journey back to the South Wedge after being missing for nearly 60 years. The statue, a seven-foot-tall cast-iron image of St. Boniface that weighs nearly 1,000 pounds, will soon return home to St. Boniface Church on Gregory Street. St. […]
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Historically speaking
We look at three festivals that take attendees to different eras A celebration of cool, obsolete machinery Western New York State is rife with fertile farmland; it’s given the region a rich agricultural history. And though farming is still a major part of life in rural areas, industrial cities grew in the late 19th century, […]
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UR’s Seward archive is now online
William Henry Seward was Lincoln’s secretary of state and integral in the purchase of Alaska.
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Hidden history: An RIT professor helps recover ancient texts
If the revolutionary knowledge contained in works by legendary Greek mathematician Archimedes had been available earlier, many scholars say, it could’ve altered the course of modern science. Instead, the works disappeared into a void for about 1,000 years. The newly recovered works show, among other things, that Archimedes anticipated calculus, the basis for modern engineering […]
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Beyond the blooms
Ten things you may not know about Highland Park Rochester’s Highland Park may be known best as the site of the annual Lilac Festival in May, but the 150-acre park offers lots of year-round interest, including a ramble through Lamberton Conservatory and the arboretum, a variety of memorials and monuments, a castle with Sunken Gardens, […]
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Foregrounding artifice
Much like photography, accounts of the past have a tendency to project a sense of authority. We may absorb each as bare fact, instead of what it really is: an account, a version, a distortion through an individual or cultural lens. The current exhibit of David Levinthal’s photographs in the Eastman House’s Project Gallery explores […]
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HEALTH/WELLNESS: The Lotus Flower City
These days, you can’t go anywhere without hearing about the newest yoga craze. Before the dawn of the Victoria’s Secret yoga pants empire, though, things were a little bit different. In the 1950’s and 60’s, yoga began to spread throughout the United States by the way of the disciples of Sri Krishnamacharya, sometimes known as […]
