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The young rockabilly star autographed each of our forearms.

American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility. 

The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.

Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.

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"The Sparck of Rebellion" | Winter 2010, Vol 59, No 4

By Douglas Brinkley

Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.

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The Man of the Century | May/June 1994, Vol 45, No 3

By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Of all the Allied leaders, argues FDR's biographer, only Roosevelt saw clearly the shape of the new world they were fighting to create.

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The Slave Who Sued for Freedom | March 1990, Vol 41, No 2

By Jon Swan

While the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.

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"I Had Prayed to God That This Thing Was Fiction…" | February 1990, Vol 41, No 1

By William Wilson

He didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.

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The Meaning of 1918 | Fall 2018 - World War I Special Issue, Vol 63, No 3

By John Lukacs

A century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.

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    Today in History

  • UGA founded as first public university

    The Georgia General Assembly establishes the University of Georgia, forming the first public university in the United States. The Board of Trustees chose to build the university in Athens, and the first class graduated in 1804.

  • Samuel Gompers born

    British-American labor leader Samuel Gompers is born in London. Gompers, a cigar maker by trade, began his work as a labor advocate as president of the Cigarmakers' International union before helping to found the American Federation of Labor in 1886.

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  • Paris Peace Accords signed

    Former Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and Secretary of State William P. Rogers sign the Paris Peace Accords with representatives from South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong, which issues a ceasefire in Vietnam. The treaty stipulated the removal of American military personnel from Vietnam, the Vietnamese withdrawal from Laos and Cambodia, and the release of American prisoners-of-war.

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