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The 1920s federal program that deliberately poisoned alcohol and killed thousands of Americans during Prohibition
Wikimedia Commons When the US Government Poisoned Americans During Prohibition The U. S. government once ran a secret program ...
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These North African pirates enslaved American sailors until the US Navy burned their way to victory
Wikimedia Commons The Barbary Wars America’s young navy faced its first real test when North African pirates started seizing ...
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The illiterate Cherokee who invented “talking leaves” and gave his nation higher literacy than white settlers
Wikimedia Commons/Charles Bird King How Cherokee Leader Sequoyah Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee ...
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This Swiss immigrant became Sitting Bull’s advocate and got smeared as his mistress by the government
Wikimedia Commons/Caroline Weldon Caroline Weldon, doomed savior of Sitting Bull Most people have never heard of Caroline ...
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This 1969 prison takeover by Native activists ended Nixon’s policy of terminating Indian tribes
Wikimedia Commons/Dietmar Rabich The Alcatraz Indian Occupation When fire destroyed San Francisco’s American Indian Center in ...
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When the Osage became richer per capita than anyone on Earth, a white rancher started killing them off
Wikimedia Commons The Osage Murders Oil made the Osage Nation incredibly wealthy in the early 1920s, but wealth brought death ...
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Before Plymouth Rock, Spanish conquistadors built America’s first permanent settlement over French corpses
Wikimedia Commons/Florida Memory St. Augustine, America’s First Permanent European Settlement Spain had bombed out six times ...
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Plymouth Colony’s most hated family produced the first official execution in American history
Wikimedia Commons/W.W. Rice at the American Banknote Company for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing John Billington, the ...
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Inside Louisiana’s Carville colony where leprosy patients built a complete society behind quarantine walls
Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Public Health Service The Louisiana Leper Home In 1894, Louisiana built America’s first leprosy ...
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How an enslaved woman’s confession ignited the deadliest witch hunt in American colonial history
Wikimedia Commons/John Whetten Ehninger Tituba, The Mysterious Enslaved Woman Who Sparked Salem’s Witch Hunt A teenage ...
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This tiny 17th-century Nordic outpost controlled three future US states before Dutch conquest erased it forever
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...
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This 1898 Supreme Court case confirmed that being born in America makes you American, period
Wikimedia Commons/ National Archives and Records Administration Wong Kim Ark and the 14th Amendment In 1895, a young man named Wong Kim Ark stood on a steamship in San Francisco Bay, barred from ...