delanceyplace archive

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Daily Excerpt Subject

six flags over texas -- 4/03/20

the grandeur of the siberian tiger -- 4/2/20

pangaea and gorgonopsids -- 4/01/20

registering women to vote -- 3/31/20

protector and defender of the neighborhood -- 3/30/20

georgia o'keeffe -- 3/27/20

teenage sensation aretha franklin -- 3/26/20

a fable for tomorrow -- 3/25/20

the goddess bastet -- 3/24/20

suffrage and temperance -- 3/23/20

reader response to shirley jackson's "the lottery" -- 3/20/20

a dress that "shimmered like the scales of a serpent" -- 3/19/20

the first woman ranger-naturalist at the grand canyon -- 3/18/20

tending to british soldiers during the crimean war -- 3/17/20

ima hogg -- 3/16/20

the demise of vanity fair -- 3/13/20

suffragettes -- 3/12/20

the case for citizen scientists -- 3/11/20

alexandrine tinné explores africa -- 3/10/20

occupation: housewife -- 3/9/20

coco chanel and world war ii -- 3/6/20

joan of arc and the nation of france -- 3/05/20

mosquitos were already resistant to ddt -- 3/04/20

the global practice of genital mutilation -- 3/3/20

the pill and the sexual revolution -- 3/2/20

toni morrison -- 2/28/20

african americans colonizing mexico -- 2/27/20

slavery and turpentine production -- 2/26/20

the malian king who may have discovered the americas -- 2/25/20

frederick douglass visits abraham lincoln -- 2/24/20

the complicated legacy of minstrel shows -- 2/21/20

segregation at the lincoln memorial -- 2/20/20

sickle cell anemia -- 2/19/20

kofi annan's father was a stickler for time -- 2/18/19

george gershwin and porgy and bess -- 2/14/20

the sensational josephine baker arrives in paris -- 2/13/20

an expedition to the north pole -- 2/12/20

african cuisine in the americas -- 2/11/20

the richest african american woman in america -- 2/10/20

texas music -- 2/7/20

200 deaths at the mexico olympics -- 2/6/20

mamie phipps clark and segregation -- 2/05/20

why africa has found it so difficult to industrialize -- 2/4/19

j.p. morgan's librarian -- 2/3/20

upper class war games -- 1/31/20