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Medgar Evers’s Mississippi Home Is a National Monument

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Medgar Evers’s Mississippi Home Is a National Monument

5 Facts About the Tulsa Race Massacre

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5 Facts About the Tulsa Race Massacre

Archaeologists Have Located the Site of Harriet Tubman’s Family Home in Maryland

A photograph of Harriet Tubman taken by Harvey B. Lindsley in the 1870s.

Archaeologists Have Located the Site of Harriet Tubman’s Family Home in Maryland

Which Trailblazing Women Should Be Featured on Quarters? The U.S. Mint Wants Your Suggestions

Which historical women deserve a tiny, metallic likeness?

Which Trailblazing Women Should Be Featured on Quarters? The U.S. Mint Wants Your Suggestions

10 Facts About Beulah Mae Donald, the Woman Who Took Down the KKK

Beulah Mae Donald in The People v. The Klan (2021).

11 Courageous Facts About the Freedom Riders

Mug shots of some of the Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, are on display at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.

5 Ways to Support the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community

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Common Misconceptions About the Civil War

Hancock at Gettysburg by Thure de Thulstrup, 1887.

Doris Miller, the Naval Cook Who Became a Hero of Pearl Harbor

Doris Miller saved a number of lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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This 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Honors 11 Unforgettable Women Who Made History

You can plot your own plan to make history while you assemble the puzzle.

Researchers Uncover 29 Graves at the Original Site of a Razed Black Cemetery in Clearwater, Florida

Clearwater, Florida, from above.

6 Facts About Sojourner Truth, the 19th-Century Abolitionist and Feminist

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The White House Is Reinstating Plans to Replace Andrew Jackson With Harriet Tubman on $20 Bills

Harriet Tubman photographed by Benjamin Powelson in the late 1860s.

The 1958 Assassination Attempt That Left Martin Luther King Jr. a Single Sneeze Away From Death

Martin Luther King Jr. in Los Angeles circa 1965.

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