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What most Americans remember of the Black Panther Party are the stars...  ...world scenarios with the atomic bomb and the Cold War . “Tricky Dick” Nixon got elected duri...  ...n got elected during this period, and the Vietnam War was ongoing. Women who were graduati...

The following article is from the new book Uncle J...  ...ny Bathroom Reader.Here’s a piece of recent American history that most people have never heard of. It...  ...ong as there was a road that went there. For many Americans automobiles did indeed deliver on that promise. B...  ...d indeed deliver on tha...

Robert Smalls was good at what he did, so good tha...  ...d go wrong at any second. Or he could sit out the war and possibly spend the rest of his life as a slav...  ...ube link)Robert Smalls’ escapade during the Civil War is so exciting that it should’ve been made....

Come see us this Saturday JULY 2! We open at 1...  ...life-size dinosaur statues exist in the middle of Civil War battles. Dinosaur Kingdom II in Virginia harkens...  ...at popped up on roadsides between the rise of the American road trip and the construction of the interstate....

What states make up what Americans consider “The South”? It’s not...  ...e in Kentucky, which was a slave state before the Civil War , but stayed with the Union. The people here speak...

It’s only been in the last couple of decades...  ...s, and teachers. Her new book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mat...  ...eady a movie. She writes:After the start of World War II, Federal agencies and defense contractors acro...  ...ous” conceptual and an...

Both swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Gabby Doug...  ...e do it, anyway? According to the U.S. Flag Code, Americans are supposed to face the flag during the National...  ...was recruited to write a patriotic pledge to the American flag as part of magazine mogul Daniel Sharp Ford&...  ...n 2003, Bellamy and his...

The following article is from the book Uncle John&...  ...ld never become the dead-eye frontier marksman of American myth.” WHAT THE SHELL? When Lincoln was a t...  ...ted in the Union or Confederate armies during the Civil War just to collect the $ 300 incentive offered...