Why Did Missouri Become a Slave State and California a Free state?
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Heartbreak at Heart Mountain
A lonely mountain dominates the road to Heart Mountain where more than 110,000 Americans found themselves caught in a vise grip of paranoia after Pearl Harbor.
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Audio: WWII Nurse Recalls Treating POWs- I’d Whisper In Their Ear “You’re Safe Now, You’re Home”
Peggy Bergthold, 93-year-old WWII veteran, served as an operating room nurse at Mare Island Naval Hospital during the war. Here, she recalls the words she would whisper to wounded POWs arriving in her hospital following their release from captivity by the Japanese.
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Daily Quiz for May 30, 2016
On February 24, 1980 the USA Men’s Olympic hockey team defeated this country’s team to win the gold medal.
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Daily Quiz for May 29, 2016
In 1886, Charles Martin Hall developed an inexpensive process to extract this pure metal from its ore.
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Daily Quiz for May 28, 2016
In 1955, the first vaccine against this disease was licensed.
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Sundance and Ethel: Every Picture Tells a Story
In 1901 outlaw Harry Longabaugh (aka “the Sundance Kid”) posed in a New York studio for a portrait with Ethel Place—but while copies of the image survive, many questions remain
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Book Review: Horsehair Bridles
Ned and Jody Martin bring to life the historic and present-day field of horsehair crafting
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Book Review: The Apache Wars
Paul Andrew Hutton unfolds the saga of the Apache wars, relating what happened to many of the colorful characters during and after the decades-long conflict