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Photo of a patent drawing for a Gillette razor.

Bye Bye Five O’Clock Shadow: The Birth of the Close Shave

by Melissa A. Winn3/7/20233/7/2023

Photo of Rev. Ike during a pre-prayer service interview in Rev. Ike's office in New York. Reverend Ike, who preached the gospel of material prosperity to millions nationwide, has died. He was 74.

Was Money This Schemer’s True God?

by Peter Carlson2/28/20232/17/2023

Photo of a tank at The World War II American Experience Museum.

Take a Tank Ride… at Gettysburg

by American History Editors2/21/20232/23/2023

Photo of MEMPHIS - CIRCA 1948: Young blues singer B.B. King a local DJ at WDIA poses for a portrait circa 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

48 Hours That Changed the Course of B.B. King’s Life — And American Music

by Daniel de Visé2/7/20232/26/2024

border-ruffians

Was ‘Bleeding Kansas’ Really That Violent?

by Jerry D. Morelock2/1/20232/1/2023

Photo of a flag outside the NAACP office with "A Man Was Lynched Yesterday" on it.

This Journalist Risked His Life to Reveal the Horrors of Lynching in the South

by Peter Carlson1/31/20232/26/2024

wiley-post-plane

The Day the World’s Best Aviator Killed Will Rogers (and Himself)

by Robert O. Harder1/25/20231/6/2024

Lewis and Clark Expedition titled Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell depicting Sacagawea with arms outstretched

Lewis and Clark’s Race Against Spain

by By Mike Coppock1/24/20231/24/2023

Draft riots in New York

American History is Full of Controversial Drafts. The Union Civil War Draft Was No Exception.

by A. James Fuller1/19/202311/7/2022

Photo of Manzanar Relocation Center. During the winter the Manzanar Relocation Center had no hope of disguising itself as anything but what it was: punitive confinement.

Ansel Adams Hauntingly Beautiful Images: Photographing the Despair of Japanese-American Internment

by Richard J. Goodrich1/17/202311/1/2022