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The Stonewall Inn on April 30, 2019 in New York City.

I Produced the Documentary Before Stonewall. Here’s What It’s Been Like to Revisit It Three Decades Later

Robert Rosenberg reflects on the making of the film and what it still has t...

Robert Rosenberg reflects on the making of the film and what it still has to teach

Migrant children walk on the grounds of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, Sunday, June 16, 2019, in Homestead, Fla.

Detaining Migrant Children at U.S. Military Bases Has Been Done Before

Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The D...

Fort Sill, an army base in Oklahoma, will soon become a refugee camp. The Department of Health and Human Services expects the repurposed military facility to house up to 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children from Central...

Yellow roses cover Judy Garland's coffin as it is taken to hearse at Campbell Funeral Home on June 27, 1969.

Some People Think Stonewall Was Triggered by Judy Garland’s Funeral. Here’s Why Many Experts Disagree

Why many experts disagree with the theory

Thousands celebrate the summer solstice and the dawn of the longest day of the year at Stonehenge on June 21, 2018 in Wiltshire, England.

Here's Why Stonehenge Is Connected to the Summer Solstice

Thousands will gather at the monument on June 21 to watch the solstice sunr...

Thousands will gather at the monument on June 21 to watch the solstice sunrise

People celebrate the midsummer sun as it rises over the megalithic monument of Stonehenge on June 21, 2005 on Salisbury Plain, England.

Stonehenge Has Attracted Summer Solstice Visitors for Centuries, But Some Historians Worry About Its Future

Plans to build a tunnel in the area have proved divisive

1862: The home of Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889), the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, in Richmond, Va.

She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We're Missing the Point of the 'Mary Bowser' Story

Mary Richards Denman was a slave, a Civil War spy and a postbellum advocate...

Mary Richards Denman was a slave, a Civil War spy and a postbellum advocate for racial justice. Why are we still erasing her from history?

The U.S. Capitol on Nov. 6, 2006, in Washington, D.C.

The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

The new round of hearings is scheduled to take place on Juneteenth

History

I Produced the Documentary Before Stonewall. Here’s What It’s Been Like to Revisit It Three Decades Later

Detaining Migrant Children at U.S. Military Bases Has Been Done Before

Some People Think Stonewall Was Triggered by Judy Garland’s Funeral. Here’s Why Many Experts Disagree

Here's Why Stonehenge Is Connected to the Summer Solstice

Stonehenge Has Attracted Summer Solstice Visitors for Centuries, But Some Historians Worry About Its Future

She Was Born Into Slavery, Was a Spy and Is Celebrated as a Hero—But We're Missing the Point of the 'Mary Bowser' Story

The House Hearing on Slavery Reparations Is Part of a Long History. Here's What to Know on the Idea's Tireless Early Advocates

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