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Author and Bay View Historian Jon Winkler joins WUWM’s Audrey Nowakowski to explore the history of Humboldt Park, ahead of ...
Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are the cities that likely first come to mind when you think about the Great Smoky Mountains in ...
Professor Emerita Rosalee Martin has written a candid book about the modern history of HBCU Huston-Tillotson University in ...
Ethel Hoppock Middle School is a public school located in Asbury, NJ, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Ethel Hoppock Middle School is 130 and the school serves 6-8.
The Trump administration’s framing of Black history as “D.E.I.” — and “D.E.I.” as harming white Americans — recasts its attack on Black history as protecting white Americans.
Most scholars say that at the nation's founding ending a pregnancy wasn’t illegal—or even controversial. Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United States.
The name Advent (From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming) is applied, in the Latin Church, to that period of the year, during which the Church requires the faithful to prepare for ...
The history behind one of America‘s cruelest laws. For nearly a century, so-called “ugly laws” banned people with visible disabilities and diseases from public spaces, ...
Hoppock's daughters, 3 and 6, are learning how to swim. She says it's important that they have that skill. "Honestly, drowning is like the most common or, I guess, it's like the top reason of ...
Well, they are all associated with Humpty Dumpty, one of the most popular nursery rhymes in the English language. But how ...
References: 1. Clinton WJ. Proclamation 7203—Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, 1999. The American Presidency Project. Published June 11, 1999. Accessed May 28, 2025.
Yes, HBC over its more than 300-year history was a part of the exploitation of our country’s resources and, especially, Indigenous peoples.