The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar […]
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Romancing the Shipwreck Coast
It was an eerie moment. After driving for hours along Lake Superior’s eastern shore, […]
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Whacking Hitler
In 1933 the FBI was on the hunt for a would-be assassin reputed to have ties to the country’s most notorious criminals.The objective: to take out the Nazi chancellor of Germany.
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How Margaret Bourke-White Captured the World Through Lens
On the evening of October 29, 1929, a 25-year-old photographer entered the First National […]
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Interview: Michael Honey / Let’s talk Civil Rights
Why were the Memphis sanitation workers on strike in 1968? For generations, black people […]
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King’s Last Crusade
Martin Luther King went to Memphis in March 1968 to lead a peaceful demonstration in support of civil rights and economic justice. Instead, the city became his final battleground.
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For Us the Living
When a nation in mourning looks to its president for comfort and courage, he […]
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A Day to Remember: January 25, 1787- Shays’ Rebellion Gets Bloody
The United States was not kind to the Revolutionary War veterans who had created […]
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American History Almanac- February 2007
There’s No Place Like Air and Space While Dorothy’s ruby slippers may not have […]
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Building your own “Sturmvogel”
Tamiya’s 1/48th-scale Messerschmitt Me-262A-2a fighter-bomber is the “Mercedes-Benz” kit of WWII’s first operational combat […]