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"Smashing Statues" book

A ‘Smashing’ Read

First Year Book Explores Past, Present and Future of Monuments

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collage of different hip-hop artists

‘Never Thought That Hip-Hop Would Take It This Far’

As Genre Turns 50, ARHU Dean, Ethnomusicologist Lists 12 Songs That Mirrored American History

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group of students records podcast

Students’ Podcast Amplifies Issues of Forgotten Feminist Magazine

Research on Radical News Journal Finds Women’s Issues Endure

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Testudo statue with birthday hat

For Testudo, a Happy 90th

Orginal Mascot Statue Retains Sheen After Kidnappings, Repeated Moves and Student ‘Offerings’

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collage of Mollee Coppel Kruger yearbook photo and handwritten letters

From Stolen Girdles to Gym Class Weigh-Ins, a 94-Year-Old Looks Back

Alum’s Letters Offer Peek Into the Oddities of Post-WWII Student Life

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protesters at UMD gate

'A Defining Moment'

Activist Alums Remember Landmark Anti-Vietnam Protests of May 1970

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Collage of M. Lucia James, Eugenie Clark and Adele Stamp

The Category Is: ‘University of Maryland Women’

Test Your Knowledge With This Women’s History Month Quiz

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Japanese Americans arrive by train

Truth in Exile

Decades After Japanese Americans Were Forced Into Camps During World War II, a UMD Archival Expert Is Bringing the Dark History of Their Management to Light

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Charlie Dory, right, and staff in the Maryland Agricultural College kitchens, circa 1912

The 1856 Project to Hold Inaugural Symposium

Five-session Program to Explore Historical Connections Between Slavery, Universities

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miners in 1905

Coal Veins

A UMD Anthropologist Is Digging Into Commonalities Between Coal Country Immigrants Past and Present

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Soldier writing

New Documentary Captures ‘The Soldier’s Opinion’

Film Based on Professor’s Research Sheds Light on Five-Decade ‘Big Brother Apparatus’ in Israel

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Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman

‘Their Histories Are Histories of Solidarity’

UMD Experts Help New PBS Documentaries Present Fuller Picture of Tubman, Douglass

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