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President John F. Kennedy meets with William Fitzjohn, Sierra Leone's charge d’affairs in Washington, in the Oval Office on April 27, 1961.

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The African Diplomats Who Protested Segregation in the U.S.

John H. Smith (left), mayor of Prichard, Alabama, unsuccessfully campaigned for the creation of an Africatown national park.

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The Forgotten 1980s Battle to Preserve Africatown

The door of the 1,900-square-foot Nantucket fallout shelter

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Inside JFK's Secret Doomsday Bunker

The 1923 Rosewood massacre resulted in the deaths of six Black people and two white vigilantes.

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How History Forgot Rosewood, a Black Town Razed by a White Mob

In July 1827, residents of Boonsboro, Maryland, built the majority of the Washington Monument in just one day.

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The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument

American ambassador Joseph C. Grew (left) meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda (right) in October 1941, two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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The American Ambassador Who Tried to Prevent Pearl Harbor

Paula, Sam and Sol Messinger aboard the M.S. St. Louis in May 1939. The U.S. denied the ship entry, forcing its 937 passengers to return to Europe. More than a quarter of these refugees were later killed in the Holocaust.

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Why Was America So Reluctant to Take Action on the Holocaust?

An inmate firefighter monitors flames as a house burns in the Napa wine region of California on October 9, 2017.

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The History of California's Inmate Firefighter Program