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The men who made the Metropolitan Museum's American Wing
Kiley Bense
Modern Memorial Day's Civil War and Reconstruction roots
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Mary Rogers' death in 1841 inspired frantic media speculation, criminal legislation, and Edgar Allan Poe's fiction
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As 9/11 passes into history, what it means to remember that Tuesday—and its aftermath
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What was gun control like in the Wild West?
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In the 1910s, the hobble skirt was blamed for traffic accidents, bankruptcies, and setting back the women's rights movement
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The fight about how to teach American history in public schools is an old one
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The scandalous suspension of Olympic swimmer Eleanor Holm
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What was the aftermath of the 1918 pandemic really like?
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How the 19th-century American asylum was used as a tool to control and punish women
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Climate change and the meteorological extremes of the summer of 1816
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A forgotten 20th-century factory fire and the fight to make workplaces safer
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