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Over the decades, the 1980s had more than its fair share of iconic technology, from walkmans to VCRs to pagers. Many of the innovative Reagan-era

By 1987, the AIDS epidemic had reached grim proportions. The disease had killed nearly 60,000 people worldwide and more than 40,000 were HIV-positive in the

An escaped slave man named Peter showing his scarred back during a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library of Congress By the time

Despite the horrors of slavery, the decision to flee was not easy. Escaping often involved leaving family behind and heading into the complete unknown, where

They called him “Moses” for leading the slaves of the South to freedom in the North. But Harriet Tubman fought the institution of slavery far

Contents A “white man’s war”? The Second Confiscation and Militia Act (1862) The 54th Massachusetts Confederate threats The fight for equal pay On January 1,

Throughout human history, children have played with and cared for dolls. Miniature facsimiles of human beings have been found around the globe from all periods

For generations, the mainstream cultural narrative of Thanksgiving in America has told how a Native American named Squanto showed Pilgrims how to obtain food after

Just three decades after the United States broke free from Britain with the American Revolution, the two nations engaged in battle again in the War