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If you were one of select few private Soviet citizens granted permission to visit the United States in 1955, you could take in a Cubs game or ski Jackson Hole, but if you wanted to sample Memphis barbeque or check out the factories in Youngstown,...
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These speakeasy cards, collected between 1920 and 1933, served as certificates of membership and admission for illegal drinking establishments during Prohibition. Delete the scoop?
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Abel Thomas, a Unitarian minister, writer, and antislavery activist from Philadelphia, published Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom, a children’s A-to-Z book about the evils of slavery, in 1864. Delete the scoop?
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Yahoo! News (blog)How John Quincy Adams' ugly win changed politics foreverYahoo!
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Thomas Jefferson is remembered as a progressive man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and called slavery an abomination, yet he was also a slaveholder himself who fathered several children by a woman he owned.
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Anne Kelly Knowles, the winner of Smithsonian American Ingenuity Awards, uses GIS technology to change our view of history...
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Stunning Color Photographs Of World War II-Era America (PHOTOS)Huffington PostMost photographs from the 1930s and 1940s depict a monochromatic world seemingly removed from contemporary society.
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Neo-secessionists are having a moment, even if they have no legal ground to break away...
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Critics are already gushing over Steven Spielberg's new "Lincoln" as a potential Oscar contender. Much of the praise centers on how the film makes the larger-than-life president at once heroic and human.
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In Hollywood, at least, Lincoln’s reputation as the Great Emancipator is safe and sound.
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WWII heroes speak out about voting and our political leadersKSLA-TVPosted: Monday, November 5, 2012 9:47 PM EST. Updated: Monday, November 5, 2012 9:47 PM EST. By Pat Simon - bio | email. WWII veterans from the ArkLaTex recently visited the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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Presidential politics would be wise to take its cues from 1787Austin American-StatesmanEvery fourth autumn, it seems, we are told that this time — yes, this election, this year — is the most important in a generation, the big choice that will shape... Delete the scoop?
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These cards, collected by Langston Hughes and held with his papers in Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, advertised “rent parties” to be held in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s. Delete the scoop?
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On March 17, revelers will drink green beer in celebration of the man who, according to David Plotz, "didn't rid the land of snakes, didn't compare the Trinity to the shamrock, and wasn't even Irish." In a 2000 Assessment printed below, Plotz...
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Vintage design is always described as outdated, old looking design with most updated products like Facebook or Nintendo Wii featured… what? Delete the scoop?
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Moratorium Day, October 15, 1969 – Washington D.C. (AP Photo) In the immortal words of the German Romantic writer Jean Paul Richter “Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life”. There co...
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This is more for the teachers than the students since this is most certainly not a current pop culture reference. Still, what's better than an interactive map displaying the locations where Johnny Cash has been while listening to him sing "I've Been Everywhere?" (Tech support: Use Google Chrome or Safari to play and ignore the finger). Via Seth Dixon 
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The map is missing Baranquilla, it's a city in Colombia
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RT @StormyVNV: Poetry of the Vietnam war.
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As the Dust Bowl era once again assumes a central place in the national dialog, LIFE.com offers a series of rare photos from hardscrabble Oklahoma in the early 1940s.
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Ken Burns lays out an ecological disaster story in his documentary “The Dust Bowl,” being shown in two parts on PBS.
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More than 40 characters in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln are based on historical figures.
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In case you hadn't noticed, we're in an unusual period of our political history.
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Washington, D.C. lies midway all along the eastern coast of the United States, about 90 miles internal from the Atlantic Ocean, south of Maryland, north of Virginia and 233 miles south of New York City. Delete the scoop?
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