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With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775 By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent,Updated April 16, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend Actors perform scripts created from Revolutionary-era depositions and interviews, including testimonials from white women.Laura Kozlowski/Courtesy Concord Museum CONCORD — Call it the flint that sparked the Revolutionary War. April 19, 1775, the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The Concord Museum is home to more artifacts from that battle than any other institution. The museum recently completed a $1.2 million revamp of its perman...

It isn’t a whole new world in 2021, but Yale University learned Wednesday that it will no longer face discriminating charges from the U.S. Department of Justice.  This photo of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, was taken by Sidney L. Smith in 1882. It was gifted by Olin Dows to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. (Image via Courthouse News courtesy of the Smithsonian) NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CN) — Just four months after it accused Yale of discriminating against white and Asian students seeking enrollment in its undergraduate programs, the Justice Department quie...