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The Cancer Detectives | Article

Helen Dickens was a crusader whose cancer van saved hundreds of lives.

Nazi Town, USA | Article

In the years leading up to WWII, children across the United States spent their summers learning archery and antisemitism.

The War on Disco | Article

When the smoke cleared on Disco Demolition Night, debate over its cultural meaning began.

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Article

Strike City was born after one small community left the plantation to live on their own terms.

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools | Article

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, sharecropping would keep most Black Southerners impoverished and immobile for decades to come.

The Sun Queen | Article

How Mária Telkes and her radical design modeled a new future.

Taken Hostage | Article

And the words of the hostages who survived 444 days of captivity.

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Swamp smarts, birds, tourist attractions, hurricanes, stories of survival.

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Moving, family, language, animals, tricksters, canoes, reenactments, the furthest distance a man can travel.

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Alligators, bingo, bones, casinos, elections, Sam Jones, sovereignty, tarzan, vietnam.

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He was elected Great War Chief, leader of all the tribes in Florida.

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Carol was born in 1945 in a hospital in Miami. Carol is panther clan, like her mother, because that is how it works.