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Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum

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The Impacts of the Catocton Furnace Study on the History of the Black Workforce

The Catocton Furnace became the focal point of this research. We spoke with two scientists from the study to get a better understanding about how this work came to be. The way science and history can serve each other, and how that impacts our current understanding of people whose stories have been erased from the history books.

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