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Native Americans want a more accurate history of Sacramento's founder

7:36am February 03, 2022

by Pauline Bartolone

California tribes are working with state parks to retell the story of Sutter's Fort. They want to include the history of John Sutter's violence toward Native Americans during Sacramento's founding.

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Many Indigenous people see California mission bells as a reminder of painful history

4:29pm February 02, 2022

by Jerimiah Oetting

Some Native Americans wants the bells that mark El Camino Real in California removed. They say the highway markers symbolize the painful history of the missions. Others say removal erases history.

A woman tosses a Ouija Board into a bonfire outside a church in New Mexico in 2001, after the church's pastor urged parishioners to burn dozens of Harry Potter books and other types of literature and games they found offensive.

When did America's culture wars begin, and how can they end? Jon Ronson has answers

5:00am February 02, 2022

America's culture wars are creating a world of "magnificent heroes and sickening villains" as people fight a fierce battle in black and white, says writer and podcaster Jon Ronson.

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What the history of U.S. sanctions can tell us about their sway on the Ukraine crisis

5:13pm February 01, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with assistant professor of history at Cornell, Nicholas Mulder, on the history of U.S. sanctions and the role they're playing now in the tensions between the U.S. and Russia.

At the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963, African Americans carry placards demanding equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing and an end to bias.

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Here's the story behind Black History Month — and why it's celebrated in February

10:41am February 01, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

Black History Month grew from a weeklong celebration that started nearly 100 years ago — and it's not random that it's in February.

Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Moore, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the late 1940s.

Remembering the man who 'laid the groundwork for the modern civil rights movement'

10:13am February 01, 2022

by Greg Allen

Seventy years ago, Florida civil rights pioneer Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were killed in a bombing at their home on Christmas Day. No one was charged with their murders.

Discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past

5:04am January 31, 2022

by Greg Allen

The U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired rare photos of a French internment camp where 18,000 Jews were imprisoned before being sent to Auschwitz. (Story originally aired on Jan. 27, 2021 on ATC.)

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council via a videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Friday.

Explaining NATO and Ukraine: How a 30-year-old debate still drives Putin today

11:50am January 29, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Here is how the history of NATO, Russia and Ukraine got so complicated.

Salomon Abend, second from the left, at Beaune La Rolande.

A discovery of Holocaust-era photos helps a Jewish family connect with its past

5:23pm January 27, 2022

by Greg Allen

A box of photos discovered more than 30 years ago includes pictures of an internment camp and many who died at Auschwitz. The photos were recently reunited with the Jewish family they belong to.

The comic book artist Art Spiegelman poses on March 20, 2012 in Paris. A Tennessee school district has voted to ban Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus, from its curriculum.

A Tennessee school district has voted to ban the Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus'

4:25pm January 27, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The 10-member McMinn County School Board voted unanimously earlier this month to remove the book over foul language and an image of a nude woman.