Dangerous Memories

John Kaniecki: Four Men from the Hay Market

Juneteenth: Commemorating the Ending of Slavery in the U.S.

Learn more about the history of Juneteenth and of Ralph Ellison's book of the same name (click here for information and purchase)

Ernesto Cardenal: With Walker in Nicaragua

 

Eugene Debs: The Sedition Act of 1918

The portrait of Eugene Debs is part of the Americans Who Tell the Truth Series

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Letter from freed slave to former master

ca. 1860's, USA. Freed slaves in Southern town shortly after the Civil War. © Bettmann/CORBIS

Hopi Prisoners on Alcatrez

Hopi Indians held prisoner on Alcatraz in 1895

On Jan.

Lucille Clifton: I am accused of tending to the past

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Smohalla: Native American Sovereignty

 

The Significance of Cinco de Mayo: Mexicans and Americans Together in War

 

The Battle of Puebla

Camilo Cienfuegos

"The rebel army is the people in uniform." Cienfuegos 

by Daniel Schmidt

In 1932, Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos was born in Havana. Even to this day, Cienfuegos proves to be a controversial figure in the history of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

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