8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks
On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed...
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The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom
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Darkness still blanketed the city of Charleston in the early hours of May 13, 1862, as a light breeze carried the briny scent of marshes...
Judah Phillip Benjamin – brains of the Confederacy
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Judah Philip Benjamin served as the Attorney General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State for the Confederacy. The first Jewish-American to serve on an...
When the President and His Chef Feuded Over Cold Beans
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In 2011, the New York Times memorialized the late French chef René Verdon as having “revolutionized” White House cuisine. As an Executive Chef during the...
Who Really Designed the American Dime?
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When was the last time you looked—really looked—at a dime? It is the smallest coin in U.S. circulation, so it takes a keen eye to...
Viola Liuzzo
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo was born on April 11, 1925 in the small town of California, Pennsylvania. Her father, Heber Ernest Gregg, worked in a coal...
It took the kidnapping, rape, and death of a white woman to bring down the KKK
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How power, sexism, and male impunity toppled a grand wizard On the night of March 15, 1925, Madge Oberholtzer received an urgent telephone call. It...
The KKK started a branch just for women in the 1920s, and half a million joined
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Not long after American women won the right to vote, a woman in Greene County, Indiana received an invitation to hear a lecture. All “the...
How White Mob Murdered And Burnt 40-Year-Old Black Man In Omaha, 1919
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During the “Red Summer” of 1919, a wave of racial and labor violence swept through the United States. The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919 was...