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Famous summits from U.S. presidential history

Homeless San Diegans are bicycling toward independence

A group of participants in full biking gear posing for a photograph with their bicycles.

Can labor organizers transform a moment into a movement?

Boeing defense plant workers holding up "Strike Against Boeing" signs outside of a Boeing facility in Berkeley, Missouri.

What Trump's national housing emergency would mean for new homebuyers

An affordable housing building under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York.

Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up

A custom graphic of a young woman illustrated with purple glitching effects.

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Who actually invented the lightbulb—and the illuminating history of modern lighting

Thomas Edison at the lightbulb's golden jubilee anniversary.

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The deadliest accidental explosions ever recorded

A view taken July 12, 2000 shows the scene of the blaze in which more than 250 people died this week while villagers risked their lives scooping fuel from a vandalized pipeline in Ovive Court in Warri, Nigeria.

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20 photos of shipwrecks from WWI and WWII

A group of divers explore a sunken shipwreck in the blue, Mediterranean sea at Naxos island, Greece

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States with the biggest Native American populations

Indigenous person dances during the inter tribal dance at the 103rd Annual Mashpee Wampanoag Pow Wow in Mashpee, Massachusetts on July 5, 2024.

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50 essential civil rights speeches

Civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech at UC Berkeley in California on May 17, 1967.

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Major civil rights moments in every state

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Civil rights history from the year you were born

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Abortion in America: How access and attitudes have changed through the centuries

Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest during the 50th annual March for Life rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on January 20,2023.

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Timeline of Jewish history in the US

A vintage photo of a father and son reading a book.

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A timeline of WWII, one of the most devastating conflicts in world history

Russian soldiers hiding in their bunker during the World War II, the Battle of Stalingrad, circa 1942.