repatriation
The remains of U.S. Army Private Harland J. Hennessey, a WWII soldier who died in a Japanese POW camp in 1942, have been returned to Rochester for burial in his hometown of Boonville, NY. Identified through DNA and dental records in 2018, Hennessey was honored with a military escort upon landing. His remains will be […]
Skulls of alleged enslaved Black Americans once used in racist 19th-century pseudoscientific research have been returned to New Orleans for a public memorial and burial ceremony. The remains were part of a collection amassed by Harvard professor Louis Agassiz and later housed at the university. The repatriation follows years of activism and reflection on academic […]
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