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We Shall Not Be Moved: The Peekskill Riot
Paul Robeson
On August 27, 1949, Ginny Hirsch steered her car toward a private picnic ground nestled near Peekskill, New York. Situated fifty miles north of New York City along the eastern bank of the Hudson River, the quiet town was to be...
Seconds Never Ending: The Four-Minute Mile
Roger Bannister
Josh Kerr is a Scottish middle-distance runner who, on July 19, 2026, broke the mile world record that had stood for 27 years. Kerr ran 3 minutes 42.6 seconds to shave nearly half a second off Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj’s...
Sudden and Violent: The Battle of Brooklyn
George Washington
During the summer of 1776, General George Washington knew that New York City had to be held. He also knew that the city could not be held. “Whoever commands the sea must command the town,” General Charles Lee wrote from N...
Never a New World: Alice Paul
Alice Paul
Recently, a hunger striker in a U.S. immigration detention center was force-fed for almost six months. Human rights organizations have widely condemned force-feeding as torture.
More than a century earlier, Alice Paul, one of t...
The Most Violent Shock
A lot happened in 1811.
On the first steamboat to ply the Ohio River, “Tiger,” a Newfoundland hound, usually slept on the open deck. But on the night of December 15, the dog adamantly refused his usual spot and insisted on staying inside t...
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