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A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico
As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.
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The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control
The CIA tried to fight communism by dosing unwitting soldiers and prisoners with acid. ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high. The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”
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She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.
After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.
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Why are Victorian Houses Haunted?
There was a time when the Victorian facade was a prevalent status symbol in the United States.
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The Late ’30s Deplatforming of Father Coughlin
Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.
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When Radio Stations Stopped a Public Figure From Spreading Dangerous Lies
When radio was king, many outlets chose to cease broadcasting Father Charles Coughlin's anti-Semitic sermons
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White American Christianity Needs to Be Honest With Itself
In the past few days, I’ve seen all kinds of statements from Christian leaders trying to distance themselves from the violent mob at the Capitol. Christian writers known for their thoughtfulness lament that “somehow” white supremacy has crept into our churches, and the faculty of a major evangelical institution put out a manifesto saying that the events at the Capitol “bear absolutely no resemblance to” the Christianity they teach. That mob, they’re telling us, is a fringe element. They’ve radically misunderstood the real message of American Christianity.
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The Lost History of an American Coup D’État
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
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When Americans Committed Insurrection
Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times.
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Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers
His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Once Donald Trump is out of the White House, Americans should write him out of history too
Since the US presidential election on November 3 2020, Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the result and deny president-elect Joe Biden his victory have grown ever more desperate. Most recently a recording of a phone call to the secretary of the state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, on January 2, has revealed that Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” more than 11,000 votes to tip the state’s result his way.
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Who Were America's Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers
The public website draws connections between existing datasets to piece together fragmentary narratives
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The Segregated Campground That Was a Refuge for Black Travelers
Preserving the legacy of Lewis Mountain in Shenandoah National Park.
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Hillary Clinton Urged Americans to Vote During the Unveiling of a New Monument to Suffragists in Central Park
A new monument to Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth debuted on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment.
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How Ronald Reagan Triumphed
Rick Perlstein’s “Reaganland” completes his multivolume survey of American conservatism with the 1980 election victory of Ronald Reagan.
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Arizona gave women the right to vote years before the nation, but not without a fight
Arizona gave women the right to vote in 1912. But the constitutional provision could have been adopted even earlier, if not for the liquor lobby.
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The Evolving Designs of US Voting Ballots
This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.
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The Invention of the Police
Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
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The creator of Mount Rushmore’s forgotten ties to white supremacy
Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain outside Atlanta
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US state moves to strip Confederate sign from flag
The southern state of Mississippi is the last in the US to feature the emblem on its flag.
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