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“I Have A Dream”: the speech that America couldn’t ignore
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the Continental Army had not escaped after the battle of Long Island?
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Into the jaws of hell: the WW2 sinking of USS
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The children who fought for the abolition of slavery
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Oppenheimer: the real history of the ‘father of the atomic bomb’
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The Soviets had landed on the Moon first and won the Space Race?
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The Manhattan Project: your guide to the building of the first atomic bomb
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Juneteenth
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Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream
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Clowns, agoraphobia and kayaks: a history of fear and loathing
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The Chinese Exclusion Act: your guide to the 19th-century US anti-immigration laws
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David Ingram: the Tudor sailor who hiked across pre-colonial America
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