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Feb 14, 2018
How the Black Panthers helped jumpstart free breakfast programs for kids
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Jan 31, 2018
Mississippi Spying: These photos show the government’s conspiracy against integration in the South
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Oct 25, 2017
These pre-fab homes were one of the federal government’s dumbest postwar mistakes
We taxpayers invested in Lustron homes, and took a bath
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Oct 2, 2017
The shooting of a Nevada senator in 1921 spurred the first big push for federal gun control
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Laura Smith
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Sep 18, 2017
In 1974, a stripper known as the “Tidal Basin Bombshell” took down the most powerful man in Washington
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Stephanie Buck
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Sep 11, 2017
Before decent radar, the U.S. enlisted 800,000 children, hobbyists, and other Americans as lookouts
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Brendan Seibel
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Sep 10, 2017
Snapshots from FEMA’s disastrous failure in the wake of Hurricane Andrew
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Allen McDuffee
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Aug 18, 2017
In 1979, the president axed 6 cabinet members in one day, citing American ‘fragmentation’
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Stephanie Buck
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Aug 9, 2017
The Oklahoma town that produced most of WWI’s bullets is now a poison graveyard
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Stephanie Buck
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Jul 11, 2017
In the 1990s, these Democrats thought Washington was ignoring the white working class
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