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The US Navy To Honor WWII Hero Dubbed the ‘Human Tugboat’

by Claire Barrett1/15/20241/18/2024

In 1942, Charles Jackson French towed a raft with 15 injured sailors through shark-infested waters for eight hours. He was denied any award or medal.

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A Battle Ulysses S. Grant Couldn’t Quite Win

by Gordon Berg1/8/20241/8/2024

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How This Escaped Slave Got His Revenge on the Confederacy

by Ron Soodalter10/31/202210/26/2022

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A View From the North: Union Women’s Wartime Memoirs

by Gary W. Gallagher8/31/20228/31/2022

Were Black People ‘Scarce’ in the West? Hardly—As These Books Show

by Greg Lalire12/20/20214/30/2024

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Josephine Baker Becomes First Black Woman Inducted into the French Panthéon

by Claire Barrett12/2/20213/10/2024

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The Oldest Living WWII veteran, Now 112, Wants to be Remembered as a ‘good soldier’

by Kristine Froeba11/15/20213/10/2024

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Notes from the Underground Railroad: How Slaves Found Freedom

by Robert B. Mitchell10/1/20213/10/2024

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How Harlem Hellfighter James Reese Europe Became a Ragtime Legend

by Stephen l. Harris9/28/20213/9/2024

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Decades-Long Mystery Surrounding Harriet Tubman’s Maryland Home Solved, Archaeologists Say

by Claire Barrett4/21/20213/31/2024