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The Pope and the president both opted to look away from the greatest humanitarian crisis of our...
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It would take several decades of legal action and years of nonviolent direct action to spark real...
It was not until 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education and later 1964 with the Civil...
In their full-throated support for Trump, no matter how nasty he gets, America’s Republicans promote nastiness. Characterizing...
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By the 1930s, vibrators were just another household electric appliance that could soothe your pains at the...
We often forget that for most of history artists did not simply create art for art’s sake....
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There are dozens of different ways to view history. You can see history from the perspective of...
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Plotting John’s route for all 17 years of his reign to produce digital maps of his progress...
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