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California is burning with greater frequency and ferocity. Nine of its ten largest wildfires on record took place in the past decade—a phenomenon driven by myriad climate-related factors

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Eight Women’s Names Are Among the Thousands on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Here’s What to Know About Them
 

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In November 1983, during a particularly tense period in the Cold War, Soviet observers spotted planes carrying what appeared to be warheads taxiing out of their NATO hangars.

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A Tale of Two Catholic
Presidents

 

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In the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, rumors of sabotage and imminent further attacks found fertile ground in the minds of a nervous American public.

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The Unsolved Murder of Civil Rights Activist Harry Moore
 

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For many watching Earvin “Magic” Johnson on television on Nov. 7, 1991, his words were tantamount to an announcement of his own death sentence.

One Hundred Years Ago, a Lynch Mob Killed Three Men in Minnesota

20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously

George Washington Gibbs Jr. Defied Danger and Racism to Become the First African-American to Visit Antarctica

The Massacre of Black Sharecroppers That Led the Supreme Court to Curb the Racial Disparities of the Justice System

Parents Are Facing Tough Choices About School in the COVID-19 Era. Here’s How People Made the Same Decisions When It Came to Polio

Florida Man Terrorizes Town, Forcing Federal Government to Step In

The Decades-Long Political Fight to Save the Grand Canyon

The Iroquois Theater Disaster Killed Hundreds and Changed Fire Safety Forever

In 1945, a Japanese Balloon Bomb Killed Six Americans, Five of Them Children, in Oregon

‘Better Babies’ Contests Pushed for Much-Needed Infant Health but Also Played Into the Eugenics Movement

Journalist Virginia Irwin Broke Barriers When She Reported From Berlin at the End of WWII

The Deadliest Disaster at Sea Killed Thousands, Yet Its Story Is Little-Known. Why?

During the Mexican-American War, Irish-Americans Fought for Mexico in the ‘Saint Patrick’s Battalion’

The First Criminal Trial That Used Fingerprints as Evidence

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