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Native Americans of the Pacific northwest raised woolly dogs who were sheared and their fur spun into blankets. New research on a 160-year-old pelt reveals centuries of selective breeding.

What separates a prison and an art gallery? The two share more than you might expect. Concrete floors, blank walls, open rooms and a home for artist Purvis Young’s multimedia works.    Young was born in 1943 in Overtown, Florida, an epicenter of African-American entertainment in Miami and a former designated black neighborhood in the segregated...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) -- Local community members and families in the Green Bay Area Public School District will...

Sparking innovation, the Nampa Public Library has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to bring an exhibit to its third floor. Hand-in-hand with Nampa’s growth, the exhibit highlights innovative development.

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A keen sense of what shoppers wanted made her eponymous company the first woman-owned business on the American Stock Exchange

Marvel's What If...? season 2 is making history by creating the first ever Mohawk superhero who speaks in the indigenous language, with help from local experts.

“I think many people don't know this chapter of our country's history," says one of the lead reporters on the project.

Scholars from Stanford, UC Berkeley and Louisiana State universities crowded into the dusty collections storage room of Oroville’s Chinese Temple moving aside tarps, opening wooden crates and peering into boxes in search of artifacts for possible inclusion in an up-coming 2026 exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.

As Utahns RonNell Andersen Jones and Denise Lindberg join the line on the steps of the Supreme Court Monday morning as the late Justice Sandra Day OConnor is carried to the courts Great Hall to lie in repose, you have to wonder what they will be thinking.