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The Most Notorious Poet in 18th Century America Was An Enslaved Teenager You’ve Never Heard Of
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Phyllis, or Phillis, Wheatley was the first black person and one of the first women to publish a book in America. Her work was read and admired by the likes of George Washington, but her talent...
How Industrial Espionage Started America’s Cotton Revolution
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7 years ago
With technical know-how and entrepreneurial spirit, Samuel Slater helped build early American industry–becoming rich and famous along the way. Slater bailed on the English and came to America...
The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades
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7 years ago
In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives On November 23, 1887, a mass shooting of African-American farm workers in Louisiana...
Amazon or Independence Hall? - Development v. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia
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7 years ago
In hindsight: A history of Independence Hall offers an illustrative example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development. Detail of north elevation of...
Pearl Harbor Day Facts 2017: 76 Years Since Japan's Attack On US
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Thursday marks the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Imperial Japanese Navy on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. The attack in Hawaii claimed more than 2,400 American lives and...
The Day the Pastor Was Away and Evil Came Barging Into His Church
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7 years ago
On any other Sunday, Frank Pomeroy, the pastor at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Tex., would have been in the pulpit. He would have seen the gunman, his steely gaze familiar, barge...
The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline
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7 years ago
Most theories for the great crime decline that swept across nearly every major American city over the last 25 years have focused on the would-be criminals. Their lives changed in many ways...
Shelby Foote’s Civil War History Defends America Against Insatiable Haters Like Ta-Nehisi Coates
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7 years ago
White House chief of staff John Kelly’s interview Monday night with Laura Ingraham, in which he expressed the mundane and historically straightforward view that “the lack of an ability to...
Ludwig von Mises: Scholar of Free Markets and Prophet of Liberty
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7 years ago
September 29 marks the 134th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, the tallest giant of the Austrian School of economics. Although Mises is not a household name, Nobel laureate Friedrich...
GUTSY WARRIORS: EAGER AMERICANS WHO JOINED ISRAEL IN THE FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE
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GUTSY WARRIORS: EAGER AMERICANS WHO JOINED ISRAEL IN THE FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE BY ELAINE MARGOLIN , Jerusalem post, OCTOBER 19, 2017 13:45 There were many tragic losses and times...
When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City
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(Photo: May 17, 1934 A mass meeting of members of the Friends of New Germany. BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES) In 1939, the German American Bund organized a rally of 20,000 Nazi supporters at...
This Day In History: 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
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In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction...
Elders Talk About The Significance Of Long Hair..
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7 years ago
Hair is the physical manifestation of our thoughts and an extension of ourselves. So pure and sacred are the thoughts of Our Mother, the Earth, that Her hair grows long and fragrant. The...
The Weight of Memory - the 1960's and 1970's Vietnam and America Coming Apart
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7 years ago
I wasn't going to watch the PBS series "Vietnam". But I was drawn to it for many reasons. I just finished watching the last episode and thought that I would put down some of my thoughts on that...
Bleak November in Boston, 1688: Witches, Gaelic and Prejudice in the American Colonies
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Approximately 325 years ago, on November 16, 1688, an old Irish woman in Boston was charged with witchcraft and hanged for her allegedly malevolent acts against the children of a local Protestant...
Man Learns His Old Throw Blanket Is Actually A Valuable Native American Artifact
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7 years ago
Antiques don’t just provide a décor aesthetic; they remind us that everything has a history—and a price. It can be surprising to learn the value of seemingly ordinary items that we often...
The Tin Can Sailors of Taffy 3 - The Battle of Samar - The Epic Naval Battle of WWII
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Naval experts call it the greatest mismatch in U.S. Naval history. The small fleet of Taffy 3 made up of destroyers, destroyer escorts and baby flat tops, did the impossible, they stopped one of...
Drones Help Discover Lost City With Ties to Alexander the Great
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Morning view over the city Qalatga Darband, a lost city that was recently found with the help of drone technology. (Credit: The British Museum) With the help of drones, archaeologists...
‘Punched in the Gut’: Uncovering the Horrors of Indian Boarding Schools
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7 years ago
Atrocities done to Native children at boarding schools are not widely known in America Mary Annette Pember • September 18, 2017 “No one has ever asked me before,” the elder...
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