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Gun that killed Billy the Kid sells for $6 million
The gun that killed American Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid sold for more than $6 million at auction on Friday in Los Angeles, more than double the pre-sale estimate.
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Tribal Headhunters on Coney Island? Author Revisits Disturbing American Tale
Author revisits troubled history of Filipino tribe brought to America in 1905.
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Hey Kamala, Here Is a Progressive Way to Address the Root Causes of Migration
End the drug war, stop the flow of U.S. firearms into Central America and curb the emissions driving climate disasters.
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The KKK ruled Denver a century ago. Here’s how the hate group’s legacy is still being felt in 2021.
Ripple effects of the Klan’s takeover of Denver’s power structures in the mid-1920s are still felt, especially after the release by History Colorado last month of digital copies of the Klan’s…
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The Pentagon Seriously Contemplated Nuking China in 1958
Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.
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Roadside Tea Rooms Were America’s Original Truck Stops
For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room
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His book helped expose Tulsa's massacre of Black citizens. Now he's helping find their graves
Scott Ellsworth talks about 'The Ground Breaking,' a new follow-up to "Death in a Promised Land," his pioneering 1982 exposé of atrocities in Tulsa.
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New 'Oregon Trail' Game Revisits Westward Expansion From Native Perspective
Developers hired three Indigenous historians to help revamp the iconic educational computer game
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The Little-Known Story of 19th-Century America’s Partisan Warfare
In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America's furious and fractious politics
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New U.S. Civil War as a security threat for the Baltic Region
Recently the U.S. marked the 160th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The death toll was put at about 750,000 soldiers, including those who died from accident, disease and starvation. Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. After so many years this conflict continues to matter, America’s wounds have yet to heal and the nation is again divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed ... https://balticword.com/new-u-s-civil-war-as-a-security-threat-for-the-baltic-region/
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A beach town seized a Black couple’s land in the 1920s. Now their family could get it back
Los Angeles officials have announced an effort to return the valuable Manhattan Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce
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The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up
Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.
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40 years since the first space shuttle mission
Only 20 years — to the day — after the first human ventured to space, Columbia became the first reusable space shuttle to take humans into orbit.
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Arabian coins found in US may unlock 17th-century pirate mystery
Discovery may explain escape of Capt Henry Every after murderous raid on Indian emperor’s ship
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Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?
In the fall of 1853 Salvador de Castro Jr., a leading Cuban slave trader, traveled to Manhattan to arrange an expedition to West Central Africa
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Masher Menace: When American Women First Confronted Their Sexual Harassers
“The masher’s chief peculiarity is a profound faith in his dominion over the other sex.”Today—almost 150 years later—we’re realizing that the ...
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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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