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America Sent Them To Die - July 5, 1950
On July 5, 1950, 406 American soldiers with obsolete weapons were sent to stop a North Korean armored division not because the military math worked, but because Genera...
America's Darkest Fourth _ July 4, 1876
On July 4, 1876, America's hundredth birthday, a Black militia company was drilling in Hamburg, South Carolina, when a procedural road dispute set in motion a chain of...
The Forgotten Iran Air Tragedy - July 3, 1988
On July 3rd, 1988, a U.S. Navy cruiser shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people aboard, including 66 children, in four minute...
The Doctor That Killed a President - July 2, 1881
On July 2, 1881, a delusional office-seeker shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington train station. The bullet was survivable. Garfield lived for seventy-nine ...
The Nuclear Bargain That Betrayed the World - July 1, 1968
On July 1, 1968, the United States, Soviet Union, and United Kingdom signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the most widely joined arms control agreement in hist...
Freedom's Funeral - June 30, 1960
On June 30, 1960, the Congo celebrated independence from Belgium. By midnight, the West had already decided its first elected leader had to go. This is the story of Pa...
The Road That Ate America - June 29, 1956
On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act from a hospital bed, launching the most ambitious public works project in American history. T...
The Fort They Said Would Fall - June 28, 1776
On June 28, 1776, four days before the Declaration of Independence, 435 American soldiers defended an unfinished fort on Sullivan’s Island against the full firepower o...
The War No One Declared - June 27, 1952
On June 27, 1950, President Harry Truman committed American forces to Korea without a congressional declaration of war and in doing so, permanently altered the balanc...
The Peace Document That Betrayed Billions - JUne 26, 1945
On June 26, 1945, fifty nations signed the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, one of the most hopeful documents in modern history. But the same afternoon, those ...
The Law That Destroyed What It Saved - June 25, 1910
On June 25, 1910, President Taft signed a law meant to protect vulnerable women from forced prostitution. Within two years, that same law had been used to destroy one ...
The Fire Nobody Mourned _ June 24, 1973
On the night of June 24, 1973, thirty-two people died in a fire at a New Orleans gay bar called the UpStairs Lounge, the deadliest fire in the city's history and the l...
The Civil War's Last Stand - June 23, 1865
On June 23, 1865, seventy-five days after Appomattox, the last Confederate general surrendered in Indian Territory and he was Cherokee. Stand Watie's story fractures e...
The Promise America Kept, And Broke - June 22, 1944
YouTube Description: On June 22, 1944, just weeks after D-Day, President Roosevelt signed the GI Bill into law. Historians credit it with building the postwar middle c...
Germany Sank Its Own Navy - June 21, 1919
On June 21, 1919, a German admiral made a decision that changed history, and almost nobody knows about it. He sank his own fleet. 52 warships, the greatest single-day ...
The Lie That Conquered India - June 20 , 1756
On June 20, 1756, a British official named John Zephaniah Holwell survived a night in a cramped cell in Calcutta and published an account that inflated the death toll,...
Juneteenth: The Freedom They Never Delivered - June 19, 1865
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on a Galveston balcony and read eleven sentences declaring that 250,000 enslaved Texans were free. But the same or...
The Traitor Who Saved France - June 18, 1940
On June 18, 1940, General Charles de Gaulle stepped in front of a BBC microphone in London and committed treason. The French government sentenced him to death for it. ...
The State That Crushed Its Workers - June 17, 1953
On June 17, 1953, over one million East German workers rose against the state that claimed to represent them, and Soviet tanks crushed the uprising within hours. The s...
The Children Who Broke an Empir- June 16, 1976
On June 16, 1976 fifty years ago today the schoolchildren of Soweto, South Africa marched against a system designed to educate them into permanent inferiority, and pol...
