Emancipation

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So World War II is one of the pivotal events in human history. And it is one of the biggest events in human history, by any measure. Millions-- tens of millions-- of human beings die in World War II....

Big Bill Haywood, one-eyed, powerfully built, he was a mountain of a man who had come out of the silver mines in the West to become a well-known labor leader, as miners struggled to organize...

It might seem strange to those of you who are very interested in international affairs, international relations, whether you live inside the United States or outside the United States, to hear that,...

So there are probably three really important things for you to take away about the process of Emancipation and how it plays out after 1865, in particular. The first is that although African Americans...

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At the beginning of the summer of 1787, representatives from most of the newly independent 13 states of the United States gather in Philadelphia, go into a building called Independence Hall, and they...

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