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The Panama Canal is one of those subjects people bring up to prove human genius. A channel cut through a continent. A passage between...
On May 1, 1865, just three weeks after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, an extraordinary event took place in Charleston, South...
Let that sit for a moment. Nancy Green was born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, on March 4, 1834. The exact number of...
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George W. McLaurin was born on September 16, 1894, in Mississippi. In 1910, his family moved to the newly created state of Oklahoma. He...