'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police
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The sad tale of Frank Olson, the US Government's hallucinogen fall man
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Mankind, unite!
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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An Election Held Hostage? - 1991
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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How the US military's opium war in Afghanistan was lost
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Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows
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The Station
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Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution.
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Historic manuscripts saved from St. Louis fire
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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Harvard sued by 'descendant of slave for profiting from photos'
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The lighting budget of Thomas Jefferson
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Wild Bill Hickok: He Claimed He Killed 100s, But His Fatalities Were Closer To 10
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American History Textbooks' Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got Wrong - Myths, Education (1995)
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Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago.
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In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism
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The assassination of Fred Hampton
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The overlooked history of African American skate culture
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald
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Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up?
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Noam Chomsky - The Right Turn (1986)
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In the 19th century, American theatres provided the stage for a war between high and low culture, the elite and ‘Know-Nothings’ – and Britain and the US. In 1849, events turned bloody.
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Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened.
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Economic update: The great American purge
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A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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A toy monkey that escaped Nazi Germany and reunited a family
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Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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The pyramid scheme that collapsed a nation
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The suffocation of American democracy
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
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1600s Native American fort is one of the most important Northeast finds
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Hunter S. Thompson in Chicago, 1968: The battle for the Democratic Party’s soul
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Victoria Woodhull: The first American woman to run for President — 150 years ago
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