1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago police riots ~humanities.history Article 2415 words 4 votes
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Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to expose the horrors of an insane asylum ~humanities.history Article 1673 words 9 votes
Georgia Gilmore, who fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott ~humanities.history Article 1323 words 5 votes
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As mayor of Cedar Key, FL in the 1890s, Billy Cottrell reigned as a tyrant until U.S. forces chased him away ~humanities.history Article 2164 words 4 votes
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A linguist’s case against "socialism": History has made the term vague and unproductive. Should it be retired? linguistics Article 567 words 7 votes
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The ‘undesirable militants’ behind the Nineteenth Amendment ~humanities.history Article 553 words 6 votes
A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration ~humanities.history Article 1410 words 8 votes
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One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach ~humanities.history Article 2034 words 9 votes
The disadvantages of an elite education: Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers education.higher Article 5484 words, published Jun 1 2008 16 votes
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The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day" ~humanities.history Article 747 words 7 votes
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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? ~humanities.history Article 4402 words 14 votes
The history of the Black radical group MOVE and its infamous bombing by police ~humanities.history Article 464 words 9 votes
The sad tale of Frank Olson, the US Government's hallucinogen fall man ~humanities.history Article 977 words 4 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
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