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By Joe LAURIA From its earliest years the United States has found ways to deny the rights of a free press when it was politically expedient…

This article traces the Paterson Italian anarchist groups and the repression they faced, as well as looking into their views on race in America.

The first day the 1st Marines fought on Blood Nose Ridge on Peleliu.

Melvyn Dubofsky suggests many histories of the IWW are clouded by myth, including the figures most deserving of our respect and attention.

Larry Cohn has spent almost 80 years collecting records and made Robert Johnson famous, a federal agent chasing the mafia, and a label boss

VA History Office  Refugees crossing behind U.S. Army lines, circa 1862. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.  The American Civil War began in April 1861 as a response to preserve the United States. Within a month, enslaved African Americans seeking shelter behind Union lines shifted the war’s objectives. Many U.S. Army leaders, such as Major General Benjamin Butler, were unwilling to return these individuals to their disloyal enslavers. Hoping to deny the Confederacy of its labor for...

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Anna Jarvis organized the first Mother’s Day observances in Grafton, West Virginia, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 10, 1908. As the annual celebration became popular around the country, Jarvis became the driving force behind Mother’s Day and asked members of Congress to set aside a day to honor mothers. She succeeded in 1914 when Congress designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.  President Woodrow Wilson’s Mother’s Day Proclamation of May 9, 1914 (Presi...

Frederika House Sisley (1852–1934) — Former General Conference Treasurer Written by:  April 13, 2021 Editor’s Note: This profile of Frederika House Sisley, the youngest person ever elected as a General Conference officer and one of only three women to serve as a GC treasurer, was written by Benjamin Baker for the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA). It is reprinted here with permission from the ESDA. Sisley, Frederika House (1852–1934) Frederika House was the youngest and on...