It was awful, one of the most disgraceful examples of urban blight imaginable. Block after block of gorgeous buildings gone to seed, …
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In the months following the murder there was scarcely an hour when the earth did not shake. The sound of it was …
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Clark Kent is resigning from the Daily Planet. Times have changed and Kent doesn’t appreciate the tabloid-like direction the paper is taking. …
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The United States today is a country of two different people, liberals and conservatives. The partisan divide is stark and unnerving. But …
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Sometime around 10:30am on the morning of Saturday, November 12th, 2011, a 24-year-old Danvers, Massachusetts man knocked on his neighbor’s door. When …
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Just after 4:00 in the morning of April 15th, 1865 two men appeared on horseback at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd …
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When they came to Wirz with the offer, he refused them. He was not a man to play games. He had already …
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History cannot be forced on a people. In 1983 the people of Africatown tried to get their neighborhood declared a National Historic …
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Few places in America are as interesting as the Mississippi Delta. Stretching 250 miles from Memphis in the north to Vicksburg in …
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In the parking lot of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, freelance tour guides wrangle tourists onto the …