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Jimmy Carter and Motown Founder Berry Gordy’s Surprising Connection

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Jimmy Carter and Motown Founder Berry Gordy’s Surprising Connection

According to a detailed family history compiled by one of the former president’s sons, the two men shared a common ancestor in 19th-century Georgia.

By Ben Sisario

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A Basket Maker Keeping Alive, and Reinventing, an Ancestral Craft

Mary Jackson, who is featured in museums like the Smithsonian, works in the fiber-arts tradition of the Gullah Geechee of coastal South Carolina.

By Shane Mitchell and Elizabeth Bick

Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94

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Natalie Zemon Davis, Historian of the Marginalized, Dies at 94

She wrote of peasants, unsung women, border crossers and, most popularly, Martin Guerre, a 16th-century village impostor recalled in a 1980s movie.

By Elsa Dixler

4 Design Books Discuss the Marks and Scars of Difficult Work

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4 Design Books Discuss the Marks and Scars of Difficult Work

The marks and scars of difficult work underpin four new design books.

By Eve M. Kahn