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How Ida B. Wells Took on America’s Lynching Crisis Alone
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America’s Roaring Twenties: Jazz, Wealth, and Divide
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Augusta Savage: The Sculptor America Tried to Silence
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Madam C.J. Walker: America’s First Self-Made Black Millionaire
The First Self-Made Millionaire in America Was a Black Woman History tends to remember wealth in a very particular way.
The Reconstruction Era: America’s Broken Promise
The Reconstruction Era: America’s Broken Promise A Nation Rebuilt Or Merely Rearranged? The smoke from the Civil War had barely
The Untold Story of Black Men in the US Senate
Before Jim Crow: The Black Men Who Sat in the US Senate Most Americans can name the first Black president.
The Double V Campaign: How WWII Launched the Civil Rights Movement
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Loyalty vs. Ambition: Yorktown and Arnold’s Betrayal
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Roosevelt’s Imperium: Mapping the Rise of the American Superpower
When people talk about the rise of American power, they usually jump to World War II. Or the Cold War.