Unsung History
By Kelly Therese Pollock
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A podcast about people and events in American history you may not know much about. Yet.
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Log Cabin Republicans and the Gay Right
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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American Posture Panic
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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The History of DARE
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to the Pacific Theatre during World War II
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Eliza Scidmore
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Foreign Missionaries & American Diplomacy in the 19th Century
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Tammany Hall, FDR & the Murder of Vivian Gordon
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Combahee River Raid of 1863
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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The History of Ice in the United States
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The History of Blue Jeans
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The History of Pinball
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The History of US Foreign Disaster Relief
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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LSD, the CIA & the History of Psychedelic Science
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Clotilda: The Last U.S. Slave Ship
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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The History of Mormonism
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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The History of College Radio
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Love Actually & the Healing Power of Christmas Films
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Mollie Moon
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Jewish War Brides of World War II
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Merze Tate
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Black Civil Rights before the Civil Rights Movement
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The Long History of the Chicago Portage
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Gun Capitalism & Gun Control in the U.S. after World War II
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The History of the Nutrition Facts Label
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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The History & the Present of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Student Right in the late 1960s
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The History of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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The Murder of Maria Cornell
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The Great New York City Fire of 1776
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The History of Drag in New York City
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Thomas Smallwood and the Underground Railroad
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Phillis Wheatley
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Gladys Bentley
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Anna May Wong
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Anna Rosenberg
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Pullman Porters & the History of the Black Working Class
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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The History of Black Women & Physical Fitness in the United States
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Enslaved Women who Murdered their Enslavers
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the Founder of Chicago
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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1970 Hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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W. E. B. Du Bois & African American Contributions to World War I
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The Internment of Japanese Americans during World War II & the Role of Attorneys at the Relocation Centers
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Racial Conflict in the U.S. Army During the Vietnam War Era
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Black Soldiers & their Families in the Civil War
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May 29, 2023 |
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The Oneida Perfectionist Religious Community
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Diversity Visa Lottery
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May 15, 2023 |
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Women & the Law in Revolutionary America
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May 08, 2023 |
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Project Confrontation: The Birmingham Campaign of 1963
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May 01, 2023 |
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The Plant Revolution and 19th Century American Literature
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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The 1972 Occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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The Southern Strategy
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Harold Washington
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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The 1968 White House Fashion Show
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Madame Restell, "The Wickedest Woman in New York"
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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The National Women's Conference of 1977
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Lydia Maria Child
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Eastland Disaster
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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The History of Polish Chicago
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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John H. Johnson & Ebony Magazine
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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The History of the Cook County Jail
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Green Book
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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American Women Writers in Italy in the 19th Century
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The 1968 Student Uprising at Tuskegee Institute
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Shirley Chisholm
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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The Aerobics Craze of the 1980s
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Smallpox Inoculation & the American Revolution
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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The Rise of the Labor Movement & Employer Resistance in the Late 19th Century
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Single Irish Women & Domestic Service in late 19th Century New York City
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Keeping Secrets in the 1950s
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Gordon Merrick
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Elsie Robinson
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The Politics of Reproductive Rights in 1960s & 1970s New York
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The 1966 Division Street Uprising & the Puerto Rican community in Chicago
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Bert Corona
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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The Effect of the Mexican Revolution on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Southwest Borderlands in the 19th Century
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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The Pacific Coast Abortion Ring
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Mary Ware Dennett & the Birth Control Movement
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Abortion in 18th Century New England
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Agatha Christie
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Mary Seacole
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Henrietta Maria
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Pirate Queens
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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The Women who Programmed the ENIAC
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Filipino Nurses in the United States
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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The Townsend Family Legacy
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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The Unusual Codicil in Benjamin Franklin's Will
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Dale Evans, Queen of the West
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Independence Day
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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The 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Two-Spirit People in Native American Cultures
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Chinese Grocery Stores in the Mississippi Delta
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May 30, 2022 |
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Patsy Mink
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May 23, 2022 |
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The US-Born Japanese Americans (Nisei) who Migrated to Japan
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May 16, 2022 |
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Thai Americans & the Rise of Thai Food in the United States
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May 09, 2022 |
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Mary Paik Lee
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May 02, 2022 |
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French Fashion in Gilded Age America
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Cabinet
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The Abolition Movement of the 1830s
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The 1913 Ascent of Denali
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Cordelia Dodson Hood
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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The National Women's Football League
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Yellowstone National Park
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Freedpeople in Indian Territory
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Alice Dunbar-Nelson
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Julia Chinn
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Who was Carol Lane?
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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The Amerikadeutscher Volksbund & the Newark Minutemen in the 1930s
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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The 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite Strike
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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The Suffrage Road Trip of 1915
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Loïs Mailou Jones
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The Yakama War
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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The Wampanoag & the Thanksgiving Myth
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Treaty Rights of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Alaska Territorial Guard in World War II
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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The Stockbridge-Munsee Community & their Removal History
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Fashion, Feminism, and the New Woman of the late 19th Century
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The Original Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Zitkála-Šá
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Freedom Suits in Maryland & DC, 1790-1864
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Chef Lena Richard
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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African American AIDS Activism
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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The Coors Boycott
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Phrenology & Crime in 19th Century America
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Chesapeake Bay Pirates & the 19th Century Oyster Wars
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Prohibition in the 1850s
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Nativist Riots of Philadelphia in 1844
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Packard
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Mary Mallon (The Sad & Complicated Story of "Typhoid Mary")
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The El Centro Hunger Strike of 1985
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Black Teachers & The Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Homosexuality and the Left Before 1960
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Sophonisba Breckinridge
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Susie King Taylor
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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The Jackson State Shootings in May 1970
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Knitting Brigades of World War I
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Introducing Unsung History
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Jun 03, 2021 |