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Chuck Berry - Collection of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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“Fun, Fun Rock ’n’ Roll High School”

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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1870 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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“Hidden Practices”: Frederick Douglass on Segregation and Black Achievement, 1887

Frederick Douglass recalled his feelings when slavery came...

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Different Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement

In 1984 Jimmy Carter reflected on growing up in the...

Notice of relocation for Persons of Japanese Ancestry, 1942. (Gilder Lehrman C

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From Citizen to Enemy: The Tragedy of Japanese Internment

Although World War II...

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Indian Removal

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Million Native American March, 2003, Washington, DC. (Carol Highsmith, LOC)

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A New Era of American Indian Autonomy

The American West is home to the majority of America’s Indian Nations, and,...

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The Rise of an American Institution: The Stock Market

On nearly every workday in the United States, if you watch cable news or...

Note of 1 shilling, 6 pence, printed in the colony of New Jersey, 1776. (GLC)

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The US Banking System: Origin, Development, and Regulation

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Cover of Puck, November 25, 1903. (Library of Congress)

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A History of the Thanksgiving Holiday

Thanksgiving stands as one of the most American of holidays, an autumnal ritual fixed in the imagination as honoring the piety and perseverance of the nation’s earliest arrivals during colonial days....

Ford Local 600 of the CIO in the Labor Day parade in Detroit MI, 1942. (LOC P&P)

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Labor Day: From Protest to Picnics

In the 1880s a surge in growth of the American labor movement led to the creation of two workers’ holidays,...