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California1 year ago

Poachers were stripping the Mojave of Joshua Trees in the 1930s. Then this Mississippi widow stepped in.

Arkansas1 year ago

The 1957 standoff where a governor closed schools rather than let Black students attend

Georgia1 year ago

How a 14-year-old escaped slavery on a gunboat and became the Civil War’s first Black Army nurse

Michigan1 year ago

This Black teen refused to give up her seat 9 months before Rosa Parks. Why didn’t she get credit?

South Dakota1 year ago

The uncomfortable truth behind Mount Rushmore: carved by a Klan advocate

Wisconsin1 year ago

The anti-slavery meeting in rural Wisconsin that accidentally created Lincoln’s Republican Party

Nebraska1 year ago

The loneliest job in America: being mayor, bartender, and librarian in a Nebraska town of one person

South Dakota1 year ago

How a broken 1868 treaty and fake gold reports turned sacred Sioux “center of the universe” into Mount Rushmore

Virginia1 year ago

How a former slave’s daughter the first Black woman to charter a bank in America

Texas1 year ago

How the son of a WWI veteran became one of few Black Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War

California1 year ago

How the Huimen Coast Miwok cared for Muir Woods for millennia before tourists ever walked its trails

New York1 year ago

The 1898 battle where Black cavalry saved Roosevelt’s charge then got called “shirkers” for their trouble

Wyoming1 year ago

How a cholera funeral became cover for the bloodiest ambush in Philippine-American War history

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