Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"
The historical legacy of singer Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” her lament about the lynchings of African Americans, w…
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Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson's Legacy
Atlantic Staff Writer David Frum - speaking from Woodrow Wilson’s Washington, D.C., home - reconsidered the 28th preside…
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Reagan's 1982 Address to Parliament
President Ronald Reagan’s 1982 address to the British Parliament was the topic of a class taught by University of Kansas…
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High School Advanced Placement - U.S. History Exam 2024
Jason Stacy and Matthew Ellington, co-authors of Fabric of a Nation: A History with Skills and Sources, for the AP® US H…
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The 272
Author Rachel Swarns talked about the 272 enslaved people who were sold by Jesuit priests in 1838 to benefit what is now…
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The Wager
Bestselling author David Grann talked about a mutiny aboard the British naval ship The Wager off the coast of South Amer…
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Congress Investigates: The McCarthy Era
In the 1950s, the Senate explored whether communists had infiltrated the State Department, the Army, and other federal a…
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Environmental Protection Agency History, 1970-1985
On its 15th anniversary in 1985, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency created a twenty-minute film documenting the r…
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 Assassination 56th Anniversary
Martin Luther King III commemorated the 56th anniversary of his father’s April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis at the …
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Abraham Lincoln and Immigration
Historian Harold Holzer described the American immigrant population before and during the Civil War, and how it impacted…
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