History
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Dolores Huerta’s Labor Legacy: How ‘Sí Se Puede’ Changed American Farmwork
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers died at 96, leaving behind a legacy of legislative victories and…
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Barack Obama: Rose on Hope and Equality, Left a Divided Nation
He won the White House promising unity. He left a country more split than he found it, and…
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How the Kennedy Family Navigates Private Grief Amid Public Legacy and Scrutiny
Exploring the impact of personal loss within the storied Kennedy political dynasty as the family confronts grief under…
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Afternoon Tea: How a 19th-Century Aristocratic Ritual Became a Global Symbol of Comfort and Connection
LONDON, October 5 — The story begins in the early 1840s, when Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, began…
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Smithsonian pulls back the curtain on its political history archive
WASHINGTON, September 10 — The story begins in a workroom in Springfield, Illinois, in the spring of 1861,…
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Smithsonian Leader Lonnie Bunch to Retire at End of Year
WASHINGTON, September 10 — Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution, the Associated…
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From KGB Officer to Kremlin Leader: Putin’s Unlikely Political Rise to Power
MOSCOW, July 15 — Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who turned 72 last October, has now held power in Russia…
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Jimmy Carter, Panama Canal Treaties Signer, Dies at 100
PLAINS, Ga., July 15 — Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, turns 100 years old…
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Leland Stanford’s Railroad Fortune Built a University and Drew a Federal Fraud Finding
SACRAMENTO, July 14 — $50 million. That is the figure that matters when assessing the legacy of Leland…
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Diesel’s 1913 Disappearance: Unsolved Death of a Pioneer
LONDON, Oct 13 — The shift is almost too neat: the inventor of the engine that would power…
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Neil Armstrong: The First Human to Walk on the Moon During Apollo 11
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 13 — Fifty-seven years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on another world, the technical…
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Neil Armstrong: First Human on the Moon, American Icon
HOUSTON, July 10 — The man who took humanity’s first step onto another world spent his final years…
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Xi Jinping’s journey from rural re-education to China’s paramount leader
BEIJING, July 10 — The story begins in Beijing, on June 15, 1953, with the birth of Xi…
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Omar Torrijos: The Panamanian Strongman Who Negotiated the Return of the Canal
PANAMA CITY, July 10 — A declassified intelligence assessment circulating among diplomatic and security circles has renewed scrutiny…
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Thomas C. Durant: The Union Pacific Vice President Behind the Crédit Mobilier Scheme
NEW YORK, July 10 — Thomas C. Durant, the 19th-century railroad baron who helped build the Union Pacific…
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Leland Stanford drove the golden spike that joined the nation’s railroads in 1869
Stanford was one of the ‘Big Four’ investors — a group that included Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins,…
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Vint Cerf, one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet,’ co-designed TCP/IP
MOUNTAIN VIEW, July 9 — 1983. That is the year the modern internet went live. On January 1,…
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Rudolf Diesel’s Engine Changed the World, but His Death at Sea Is Still Unexplained
PARIS, July 9 — Against the backdrop of a world still dependent on fossil fuels, the ghost of…
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Tim Berners-Lee built the World Wide Web at CERN and gave it away free
GENEVA, July 6 — The World Wide Web turned another year older this week, and its origin story…
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Holocaust Restitution Architect Judah Gribetz Dies at 97
NEW YORK, July 3 — Judah Gribetz, the lawyer and architect of the landmark restitution plan that distributed…
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76 Other Ways Philly Changed the World
PHILADELPHIA, June 26 — The block party on South Street is already spilling into the intersection, a tangle…
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Tourists trace Mandela’s journey from village exile to presidency
Nelson Mandela’s journey from the grassy hills of the Eastern Cape to the presidency of South Africa is…
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Mandela’s birthplace and family grave mark journey 100 years after his birth
NELSON MANDELA’S GRAVE sits behind a dusty road in Qunu. Across from it lies his family’s burial site.…
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Nation Mourns: Jimmy Carter’s Funeral Set for January 9, 2025
The federal government is preparing for the state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, with January 9, 2025,…
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