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Stephanie Buck
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Nov 14, 2017
Here’s how a bunch of macho oil workers brought about legal protections from same-sex harassment
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Stephanie Buck
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Oct 31, 2017
Until this woman stood up, English wives had no rights to see their children or even get a divorce
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Nina Renata Aron
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Oct 20, 2017
Groping in the Ivy League led to the first sexual harassment suit—and nothing happened to the man
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Stephanie Buck
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Oct 11, 2017
After one Georgia gun lover wanted to build his own machine gun, the NRA got its worst defeat ever
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Allen McDuffee
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Oct 9, 2017
When a rich white man was murdered in front of the Princeton Club, gun control came to New York
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Stephanie Buck
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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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Aug 3, 2017
The FBI’s mole in the KKK murdered a black man while under bureau protection, and got away with it
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Nina Renata Aron
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Jul 13, 2017
In the 1800s, there were literally laws against being ugly (and no surprise who suffered most)
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Rian Dundon
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Jul 11, 2017
These authentic courtroom sketches of the Watergate trials capture the bitter end of a president
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Stephanie Buck
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Jun 15, 2017
Universal health care was almost part of the original Social Security Act of 1935
This close, for 80…
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