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• 6/13/2021
  

  HNN Turned 20 This Month! Revisit the First Edition

  by HNN Staff

  HNN turned 20 this month! Help us celebrate by checking out our inaugural issue through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/3/20
  

  What everyone should know about Reconstruction 150 years after the 15th Amendment’s ratification

  by Tiffany Mitchell Patterson

  Here are some suggestions for educators and others interested in learning more about that time period.

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• SOURCE: KSMU
  5/22/19
  

  Marking The Day The House Voted For Women's Suffrage

  NPR's Cokie Roberts answers questions about women's voting rights and history. 

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• 3/31/19
  

  How Hollywood has been fooled by Robert F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists

  by Mel Ayton

  Sirhan Sirhan is guilty. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/4/19
  

  After 54 years, the fight for voting rights in Selma is ongoing, organizers say

  A Supreme Court decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, rendered much of the Voting Rights Act ineffective. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/6/19
  

  Why the Seattle General Strike of 1919 should inspire a new generation of labor activists

  by Steven C. Beda

  Remembering the 1919 Seattle General Strike on its 100th anniversary.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/30/19
  

  How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line

  by Chris Lamb

  "She had to live through the death threats, endure the vile screams of the fans and watch her husband get knocked down by pitch after pitch. … She was beautiful and wise and replenished his strength and courage.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/31/19
  

  Reflections on Jackie Robinson's Legacy on His 100th Birthday

  Through images and personal essays by longtime New York Times writers, a vivid look at the man who made baseball truly American.

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• 1/30/19
  

  Bold Experimenter FDR Was Born 137 Years Ago

  by Joseph A. Esposito

  Unquestionably, Roosevelt is the most consequential American president since Abraham Lincoln.

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  1/18/19
  

  Ahead of its 100th anniversary, revisiting the Seattle General Strike and the city’s long legacy of organized labor

  The Seattle General Strike lasted six days, with not a single shot fired nor a single striker arrested.

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• 1/7/19
  

  Yesterday was the 100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's Death. Here's How His Legacy Still Shapes the United States Today.

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  From national parks to corporate regulation, Teddy's ideas surround us.