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Satchel Paige with bat boys in the dugout watching a game in Los Angeles, ca. 1943.
Satchel Paige: The First Negro League Player Inducted into the Hall of Fame
Image depicts statues of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton facing off in their duel.
The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
Martin Luther King Jr. Day March at Southern Arkansas University.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: A Holiday the Nation Resisted
George W. Bush and Al Gore
Bush v. Gore Twenty-Five Years Later
James Garfield and the U.S. Flag
President James Garfield's Assassination
Pluto
The Discovery of Pluto
Voting booth exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
God in the Voting Booth: How Religion Shapes the Politics of Both Republicans and Democrats
College Green, Ohio University, 1973.
Our Gilded Bronze Age of Higher Education
Print of "Galveston's Awful Calamity".
Galveston 1900: 125 Years After the Storm
the back of a man who is looking at a flying saucer in the sky
Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.
Who Was Typhoid Mary?
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it
Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money
The Alcoholics Anonymous logo at a church. (Image by Rachel K)
A Brief History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Djiboutian workers fill bags with wheat destined for Ethiopia, provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), at the Port of Djibouti, Africa, Jan. 7, 2013.
The Birth and Death of USAID
the back of Donald Trump standing in front of a U.S. flag and bright lights
The Trump Administration’s Domestic Policies: Insights from History
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft taken on July 13, 2015.
Discovering Pluto
statue of Joseph Smith in a garden
Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
a plane flying over a group of West Berlin citizens
The Berlin Airlift
One of the McMinnville UFO photographs. Skeptics have concluded that the UFO was a small model suspended by wires or string from the power lines visible at the top of the photo.
The Air Force Investigation into UFOs
Poinsette
The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.
What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?
Olympic Broadcasting Services covering the men's 10 kilometre marathon swim at the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Big Game on the Small Screen: The Televised Transformation of Sport
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.
The United States: Democracy or Republic?
Ippolito Caffi's Eclisse di sole alle Fondamenta, Nove 1842, a solar eclipse and people standing on a shore looking up at it
Solar Eclipses in American History