By February 1973, unrest among Lakota residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was coming to a boil. Though in office barely a year, the tribe's elected chief,…
May 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Dennis Banks. Photographs BY AP Photo/Jim Mone; AP Photo/Pool.
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Even before the end of World War II, the U.S. began to repurpose its wartime manufacturing for peacetime, and one of the first industries targeted was munitions production. As early…
Apr 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Photographs Ccourtesy of Moore Memorial Public Library, Texas City, Texas
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On the morning of March 14, 1984, a team of federal regulators arrived at an inconspicuous strip mall in the eastern Dallas suburb of Mesquite to seize control of what…
Mar 1, 2016 12:30 AM CST
Chairman Spencer Blain at a congressional hearing on the failure of Empire Savings and Loan. DMN File Photo.
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Long before they became a symbol of national grief and anger, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in south Manhattan were tourist landmarks in New York City's skyline—the…
In August 1967, rock promoter Brian Epstein was found in his London apartment dead from an accidental drug overdose. Only 32, Epstein was widely regarded as the man who discovered…
Dec 1, 2015 12:40 AM CST
The Fab Four’s first live performance in the United States, on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, attracted 73 million viewers. AP Photos.
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In 1831, southeastern Virginia was weighted with the economic realities of a slave economy. Crop prices were down. The populations of slaves and free blacks were growing faster than the…
Nov 1, 2015 12:30 AM CDT
Photograph courtesy of Flickr creative commons
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In May 1692, only nine days after arriving in Boston, the newly appointed governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Phips, commissioned a court of oyer and terminer to adjudicate…
Oct 1, 2015 6:30 AM CDT
Photograph courtesy of Matteson, Tompkins Harrison /Detroit Publishing Co./library of congress
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In 1908, photographer Lewis Hine was hired by the National Child Labor Committee to bring images of working children into the public square. The 1900 census had revealed that an…
Jun 1, 2015 5:55 AM CDT
Photo by Lewis Hine and courtesy of the Library of Congress
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For nearly 3,000 years, variola major—a disease known as smallpox—plagued the planet. From Europe to Africa and Asia, the disease killed as many as 30 percent of those infected. There…
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