Hidden history
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History shouldn't be a mystery
Our story's real history
Not his story
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Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
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Hitler’s American model: The United States and the making of Nazi race law
The American influence on Nazi race law
How American racism influenced Hitler
How the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow
Hitler’s American bible & white nationalism’s deep American roots
How to hide an empire: a history of the greater United States
How the US has hidden its empire
Let’s open the closets of history
Enslaved people built, and were sold from, the White House · short video
Over a quarter of all American presidents have owned human beings
George Washington's teeth not from wood but enslaved people
The destruction of Seneca Village to build Central Park
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons
The myths of the Thanksgiving story and the lasting damage they imbue
When Reagan likened African UN delegates to monkeys
Invade Haiti, Wall Street urged; the U.S. obliged
The myth of the Alamo: When Texans fought to enslave people
We have the Texas origin story all wrong
Correct the record · forget the Alamo
Truths of the US south and its ‘secular Mecca’
When slaveowners got reparations
How a racist film helped the Ku Klux Klan grow for generations
They were her property: white female slave owners in the American South
The overlooked role of female slave owners
Lewis, born Oluale Kossola, one of the last slaveship survivors, tells his story
The day the police bombed a US city street