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Continue reading →: Glamour and Grit: Nightlife Legends of the 30s and 40sStep into the dazzling, bold world of 1930s-40s nightlife! From Harlem’s largely segregated jazz palace to Hollywood’s wartime morale haven, the Cotton Club and Hollywood Canteen reveal how glamour and grit shaped American culture in the 1930s and 1940s. #AmericanHistory #JazzAge #WorldWarII
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Continue reading →: George Washington, UncommissionedLong before the Revolution, George Washington survived massacres and British insults on the frontier. Explore the “uncommissioned” years that taught him the hard realities of logistics and leadership skills necessary to birth a nation. #USHistory #GeorgeWashington #FrenchAndIndianWar #AmericanRevolution #FoundingFathers
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Continue reading →: The Machine in Forest HillsHidden behind a sagging fence in a quiet Pittsburgh suburb lies a 90-ton silver bulb that once cracked the secrets of the atom. Discover the rise and fall of this decaying nuclear giant. #USHistory #WestinghouseAtomSmasher #PittsburghHistory #NuclearHistory #IndustrialHeritage
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Continue reading →: The Engine HouseJohn Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry failed as an uprising, but it succeeded in changing America. This is the story of the plan, the trap, and the aftermath that helped drive the nation toward civil war. #JohnBrown #HarpersFerry #CivilWarHistory #USHistory #AmericanHistory
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Continue reading →: Fit Enough to FightSeventy-two hours. Fourteen hundred men. One carrier that had no business being seaworthy. The Battle of Midway almost didn’t happen — here’s the part of the story nobody tells. #BattleOfMidway #WWII #WWIIHistory #USSYorktown #NavalHistory #PacificWar #USHistory #MidwayAnniversary #USNAVY
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Continue reading →: WXYZ: The Last Word in RadioOne Detroit radio station created the Lone Ranger, the Green Hornet, and Sergeant Preston. Here’s the story of the men who built them — and what it cost them. #LoneRanger #GoldenAgeOfRadio #OTR #OldTimeRadio #RadioHistory #AmericanHistory #GreenHornet
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Continue reading →: Three Graves, No Birthplace: The Forgotten Origins of Memorial DayWaterloo, New York is the official birthplace of Memorial Day — declared so by presidential proclamation in 1966. The actual story involves three communities, three different meanings, and a century of forgetting. #MemorialDay #DecorationDay #AmericanHistory #CivilWarHistory #USHistory
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Continue reading →: Well, Fire: Louisville and Bloody MondayIn Louisville, the most widely read editor in the Ohio River Valley spent months telling his readers that their Catholic neighbors were enemies of the republic. On August 6, 1855, they listened. #BloodyMonday #LouisvilleHistory #KnowNothings #AmericanHistory #KentuckyHistory #ElectionHistory
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