Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life By Kingsley M. Bray, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006 […]
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Little Rock at 50
Michael K. Honey, author of Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther […]
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Death of an “American Dictator”
Durham White Stevens’ assassination in San Francisco in 1908 was an indirect result of […]
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Radioactive Cure-alls
William J.A. Bailey grew rich from his radium-laced patent medicine Radithor, until it killed […]
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Glow in the Dark Tragedy
Fatally poisoned by the glowing paint they used on the job, the ‘Radium Girls’ […]
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Rethinking the Revolution
Americans remember the Civil War for its unsparing brutality. But was our fight for […]
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Dialogue: John Wilson and Chris Bryson on History Detectives
Now in its fifth season, PBS’ History Detectives is touted as the show where […]
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American History Headlines- October 2007
Lincoln Artifacts Found The National Archives announced in June the discovery of a handwritten […]
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Daily Quiz for September 10, 2018
Ring Lardner, Jr., son of the well-known satirist, became a satirist screenwriter winning Academy Awards for 1942’s “Woman of the Year” and this later classic.
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Daily Quiz for September 9, 2018
Allan E. Bovay of Ripon, Wisconsin organized this political party in 1854.