Check out these 12 retro basement remodels, including a ranch room with a Western atmosphere, created with cowhide furniture, a totem pole, and a colorful pattern for the floor copied from a Navajo blanket.
See damage caused by the St Louis tornado in May 1896 – considered one of the deadliest on record with at least 255 lives lost – and get the whole story.
During World War II, the railroad companies had to devote their resources to the war effort by transporting troops around the country. Here’s a look back at some of what the railroads were offering to entice passengers back in the late ’40s!
Racism is very difficult for any of us to admit, even to ourselves. But gradually and inevitably we had to conclude that the basic cause of America’s racial disorders is white racism.
Prejudice – A name for racism Kerner Commission Report backstory, part 3: Prejudice. It’s in all our hearts. What can we do about it? By Otto Kerner,
It is hard to believe that only two centuries ago, Chicago was a lonely marshland of trees and tall grass, a place with an abundance of wild onions, from which the Iroquois gave it its name, Chicagou.
KERNER RACISM REPORT COVERAGE Introduction: Insight into the Kerner Report from Kerner himself Part 1: Racism confronted after months of soul-searching Part 2: Use of ‘overforce’
Take a look at a more than 20 vintage road maps below, apparently preserved for years in car gloveboxes across the nation!
Transcript of Jefferson’s Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803) Confidential Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln From a carbon enlargement, made by Sherman and McHugh of New York City, of an ambrotype owned by Mr
Use of ‘overforce’ criticized Kerner Commission Report backstory, part 2: Kerner urges responsibility in meeting violence By Otto Kerner, Chairman, National Advisory Commission on Civil
Getting the facts Kerner Commission Report backstory, part 4: President’s riot commission learned from the people By Otto Kerner, Chairman, National Advisory Commission an Civil Disorders
Of course, we can and must take many steps on a high-priority basis to stop America’s ominous drift toward two societies, separate and unequal.
Letter to the Editor: Child birth control Letter from Allen Steven, published on June 02, 1915 in The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois) We are long since rid of
ILLINOIS. Is about equal in extent to England. with a population of 1,722. No State in the Valley of the Mississippi offers so great an inducement to the settler as the State of Illinois.
Chicago in Ashes THE GREAT CALAMITY OF THE AGE. Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Property destroyed The South, the North and a Portion
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