When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change
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Judges gone wild! The Florida Supreme Court scandals of the 1970s make today’s political circus look tame by comparison
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Phil Vischer, creator of VeggieTales, explains the history of racial inequality in America
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The history of Coney Island
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Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
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Last person to receive an American Civil War pension dies
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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How 1960s black protests moved elites, public opinion and voting
@owasow: For 15 years, I've been studying 1960s civil rights protests with particular attention to how nonviolent and violent actions by activists & police influence media, elites, public opinion & voters. I'm thrilled some of that work was published last week. 1/ https://t.co/zzvvPTcgoP
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." MLK, Jr., 1967
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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Oceania explained
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Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
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Political ships of Theseus | The American party switch
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The Pope just proposed a universal basic income. Is the United States ready for it?
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America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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The great toilet paper scare of 1973
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How the 1957 flu pandemic was stopped early in its path
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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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The US's foreign entanglements
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The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
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Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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The forgotten story of America's first EMT services
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
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Abraham Galloway, spy for the Union
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Carl Cotton: Chicago's original black taxidermist
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Social Security cards explained
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How Iran's Qassem Soleimani became a US target
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The Hamilton Hustle
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Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
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The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
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Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance
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How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
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The case of Leopold and Loeb
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The origins of American gun culture
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The Texas Railroad Commission centennial documentary (1991)
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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How the Republican party went from Lincoln to Trump
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How releasing 1,500,000 balloons went horribly wrong
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