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(19th President Rutherford B. Hayes) On this day in 1867, the first of the Reconstruction Acts was passed. The idea behind the Reconstruction Acts was to help bring the South back into the nation following the Civil War,...
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Today in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, leading to her arrest for violating segregation laws. The history surrounding this momentous day is a bit more complicated than our...
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Today we are celebrating our 229-year-old right to peacefully assemble with a collection of photos showing people exercising that very right. In September of 1787, our Founding Fathers signed the Constitution. Its first amendment gave Americans the right to peacefully...
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Fact of the day: Columbus didn't "discover" America. Though Columbus Day is an American National Holiday, he never stepped foot in North America. He and his crew first landed on what is today an island in the Bahamas. They...
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John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier on their wedding day, September 12th, 1953. 63 years ago today, John F. Kennedy and his love, Jacqueline Bouvier, married in Newport, Rhode Island. At the time, Kennedy was a Senator from Massachusetts...
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