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The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York. The viewing audience watches the New York Rangers battle the Montreal Canadiens at ...

A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.

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The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...

For Women’s History Month, teachers can use these activities to guide students in exploring the lives of courageous women.

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

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By then, he had started writing about the “cultural apparatus,” which he defined as “composed of all the organizations in which artistic, intellectual, and scientific work goes on.” Mills was not ...

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