Demonstrators display a call for Christian nationalism at the Jan. 6, 2021, ‘Stop the Steal’ rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol.
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Flagpoles outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito have displayed symbols used by Trump supporters and Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
Immigrant children at Ellis Island in New York, 1908.
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May 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, which sharply cut the number of people allowed into the US.
Educator Mary McLeod Bethune regularly wrote of her travels abroad.
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A former archivist at Mary McLeod Bethune’s last residence in Washington, DC, recounts how the experience led her to see Bethune as a global figure.
One of war photographer Robert Capa’s images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches on D-Day.
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Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
‘The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States’ is the earliest known board game to depict a map of North America.
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Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
An Acela, the flagship train of the Northeast corridor, moves through Connecticut.
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Love it or hate it, the ‘Acela Corridor’ has developed a widely recognized identity thanks to the trains that link it together.
A KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 21, 1923.
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Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
Take your cuppa elsewhere.
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Two and a half centuries later, some things haven’t changed.
Under cover of night, Colonists boarded the ships, dumped the tea chests and sparked a revolution.
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An attack on private property angered Colonial leaders as much as the British public – but a strong reaction from Parliament hardened the positions of the opposing sides, making compromise impossible.
Merchandise is locked in cases to guard against theft in a Target store in New York City on Sept. 23, 2023.
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Shoplifting has been hyped as a driver of chain-store closures, but did these companies ever really understand urban environments in the first place?
Birders participate in the Christmas Bird Count on Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2017.
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What’s in a name? A lot, if you’re an Audubon’s Oriole or a Townsend’s Solitaire.
A typical New England stone wall in Hebron, Conn.
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New England has thousands of miles of stone walls. A geoscientist explains why analyzing them scientifically is a solid step toward preserving them
Bulldozed land at the planned site of a controversial police training facility, with Atlanta in the distance.
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This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
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Old and new money come into conflict in this American ‘prequel’ to Downton Abbey.
Students become more emotionally engaged with history when it’s presented in an interactive way, research shows.
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Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
‘Valley of the Yosemite’ by the 19th-century artist Albert Bierstadt, owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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The idea of Manifest Destiny inspired Americans to push west, leading to the creation of the first national parks. But those beliefs spelled removal for many Native American groups.
The North Carolina memorial stands in Gettysburg National Military Park on Aug. 10, 2020.
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How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
President Biden meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on arriving in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.
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Until 1906, no US president had ever traveled abroad in office. Then Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated the power of showing up.
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon.
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David Grann’s account of a sensational murder investigation, the basis for Martin Scorsese’s latest film, delves into the mythologies of the old Wild West
An Osage delegation with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House on Jan. 20, 1924.
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The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.