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4 days ago · Here’s what to know about Kamala Harris’s life and the moments that defined her in politics.
3 days ago · Here is what to know about the case and the events surrounding Massey’s death. What happened on July 6? At about 00:50am (05:50 GMT), two Sangamon County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call ...
3 days ago · Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the ...
3 days ago · American civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to resist racial oppression and abolish the institution of slavery .
3 days ago · Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken. A limited democracy might indeed be the best protector of individual liberty and be better than any other form of limited government, but an unlimited democracy is probably worse than any other form of unlimited government ...
1 day ago · Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. The longest serving U.S. president, he is the only president to have served more than two terms.
3 days ago · Title: Radio and television address to the American people on the Soviet arms build-up in Cuba, 22 October 1962. Date (s) of Materials: 22 October 1962. Description: Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba.
