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Commemorating York

Landmark Status Granted

1838 Slave Sale Yields Jesuit Commitment

Civics Class Is a Good Idea

Maryland Archaeology Focuses on Black History

Mob Attacks White House (in 1841)

Jersey City Saves its Loews

Sitka’s Tlingit Fort Pinpointed

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Return to Spirit Lake

CONTRIBUTORS

BOOZE BEATER

TALKING CONSPIRACY THEORY BLUES

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POINTEDLY PERILOUS • SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES 249 U.S. 47 (1919) DID CHARLES SCHENCK’S CONVICTION UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT FOR CRITICIZING THE DRAFT VIOLATE HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

TODA LA FAMILIA

All Her Trials • Suffragist Susan B. Anthony went looking for a fight—and found it

Federal Voting Rights Timeline • States could extend voting rights independently or, unless countermanded by federal law, establish barriers to voting like literacy tests.

Blood and Sugar • The German Coast Uprising thrilled those in bondage and shocked mainstream Louisiana

Record of Resistance

Road Work • Fashioning a 52-mile passage through Glacier National Park showed planners how to interlace wild beauty and public access.

Which Way Up?

Killing Apollo • Getting to the Moon turned out to be the program’s biggest coup

Born to Build • As a businessman, Charles Bulfinch was a hot mess, but as an architect he designed for the ages

Built by Bulfinch

ALL-AMERICAN AGITPROP

BETTER ANGELS AT WORK

WHEEL WORLD

ABOUT TO BE ABE

WHEN PARANOIA CAME INTO STYLE

Sitka, Alaska…