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On this day in history, April 26, 1865, John Wilkes Booth is killed by Union troops for murdering...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoUnion troops hunted down John Wilkes Booth, the Confederate sympathizer who shot President Abe...
One Way America Can Meaningfully Address Poverty
Time via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoOver forty years of neoliberal economic policy have profoundly exacerbated income and wealth inequality especially across racial lines. The crisis of the...
Inside Orioles owner David Rubenstein's business ventures with $3.9b net worth
The US Sun· 5 days agoBILLIONAIRE businessman David Rubenstein owns the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation - and...
Iowa politicians are still trying to teach history to your children
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoRepublicans in the Iowa Legislature are determined to meddle in your kid’s classroom. The House and...
Opinion: Republicans have become 'de facto White Party' by rejecting multiracial democracy
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHowever, we should recognize there have been other important “beginnings” since then. Certainly, an...
Correcting the record on reparations with Trymaine Lee
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoHe wanted to free enslaved people in the District [Washington, D.C.]. This was a year before the ...
The Bizarre Story Behind How Franklin Pierce Was Accused of Treason
Mentalfloss· 2 days agoIn the fall of 1861, former President Franklin Pierce headed to the Midwest, where he intended to...
For some, voting is more than a civic duty — it’s continuing the fight of their ancestors
Philly.com· 2 days agoLelia G. Johnson, 65, was finished with her primary day duty by 8 a.m. She didn’t actually have to...
Oliver Lewis won the first Kentucky Derby atop Aristides. His story doesn't end there
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoOn Feb. 26, 1865, when Lewis was 8, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing...
Education should help students understand government and their roles in it | Tom Campbell
Star News via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut the issue prompts a larger discussion over public education. The National ...