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"100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" shows a sampling of the institutes archive.

100 years ago today, Louis Armstrong wrapped his first recording session The 21-year-old Armstrong, on cornet, was a protégé of New Orleans fellow cornetist and band leader King Joe Oliver. On ...

6/20 Five more items in Neil MacGregor's history of humanity through the objects it has made.

• The first volume of Adolf Hitler’s autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf is published on July 18. • Britain enacts the first Palestinian Citizenship Order, 1925, on July 24. The act officially ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Created in Tanzania about 1.8 million years ago, the tool is one of the oldest objects any human has ever made. The Olduvai stone helped humans to strip the meat off dead animals and break their ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...