Robert F. Kennedy asked black Americans for the truth. They told it. RFK didn’t like what he heard.
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TIME TRAVEL: Fortifying the Last Frontier
Travel writer Jessica Wambach Brown travels to explore the forts that once protected a vital supply route during the war.
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Daily Quiz for October 13, 2016
The Heinz Company slogan of “57 varieties” was introduced in this year.
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Custer’s First Last Stand
Almost every American school kid is familiar with the story of Custer’s Last Stand, […]
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Stolen Letters: Benjamin Franklin and the Hutchinson Affair
In December, 1772 Benjamin Franklin – then serving in London as an agent for […]
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The Second Vermont Brigade at Gettysburg: 2 July 1863
The 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Vermont Volunteer Infantry regiments comprised the so-called […]
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Jeanette Rankin: The Congresswoman Who Voted NO to WWII
What does a dedicated pacifist do when the United States surges toward war?
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Audio: Born On The 4th Of July- Ron Kovic Details The Mistreatment That Awaited Wounded Vets On Their Return From War
Ronald Lawrence “Ron” Kovic, who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War, recalls the events behind his famous memoir ‘Born on the Fourth of July’.
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Daily Quiz for October 12, 2016
The last conviction under Britain’s Witchcraft Act of 1735 took place in this year.
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Over the Hump
In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ brand-new Air Transport Command began running the […]