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September 2020

Features

Precious maps, books and artworks vanished from a Pittsburgh library for nearly 25 years. But the caper’s final chapter was written this past summer

Travis McDade

Criminals haul millions of tons of fish from the world’s oceans, threatening fragile species. Only sometimes do they get caught. Here’s how

A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan more than 2,000 years ago. Why was it forgotten?

Text by Isma'il Kushkush; Photographs by Matt Stirn

How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a U.S. cover-up—and a new cancer treatment

Committing to our educational mission means reaching people where they are

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The secret past and uncertain future of the great river that has defined a nation

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How Fred Newton found himself neck-deep in history

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Inspired by antique “freedom quilts,” an artist stitches secret messages into his own textured pieces

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Two women from disparate worlds confront a terrible injustice that one family’s ancestors perpertrated on the other’s

Ann Banks

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