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Wild West Magazine
Ian Spurgeon provides a history of the first black regiment to fight in the Union Army—the 1st Kansas Volunteer Infantry (Colored)...
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American History Magazine
A bevy of 20th-century trailblazers led women to soar to new heights “Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done,” aviatrix Amelia Earhart once famously declared. Earhart and other pioneering 20th-century women...
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Audio, Politics
Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League, the nation's largest civil rights movement and former mayor of New Orleans shares his thoughts about Bernie Sanders' limited support among the African-American community....
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HistoryNet, Personalities
In 1936, an unknown son of a black sharecropper sprinted his way from obscurity into legend. Race, starring Selma’s Stephan James and SNL’s Jason Sudeikis, is based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the African-American...
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American History Magazine
5 Ways to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day...
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Videos
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Gwen Ifill talks with biographer Jeanne Theoharis, whose book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955. Parks had been thrown off...
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Ask Mr. History
Was slavery the main cause of the Civil War?...
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Ask Mr. History
Was there anything like a "farmer's cooperative" in which poorer farmers joined together to buy and jointly own slaves?...
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Ask Mr. History
How does European feudalism compare to African feudalism?...
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MHQ Magazine
The U.S. Navy’s surprise steps toward desegregation in World War II...
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Ask Mr. History
I heard the death toll in the Underground Railroad during the Civil War exceeded that of the actual soldiers that died in the armies. Is this true? What are the statistics? Brent Weathers ? ? ? Dear Mr. Weathers, I don’t know from whence...
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Ask Mr. History
My question is on the 13th Amendment. There is a notion that the 13th amendment had 20 sections, and it may very well have, but was never ratified. There are more and more people suggesting that it was ratified. I want clear proof to show...
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American History Magazine
Lead Belly wows John and Alan Lomax....
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American History Magazine
Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat...
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Ask Mr. History
Why were slaves living in Accomack County, Virginia, not freed by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? —Thelma ? ? ? President Abraham Lincoln’s original Emancipation Proclamation in January 1862 was neither as sweeping...
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HistoryNet
"Breath of Freedom" on Smithsonian Channel tells the story of African-American soldiers in WW2 and post-war Germany, and how their experiences influenced the civil rights movement of the 1960s....