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Slavery was inherently cruel and unjust, and it was cruel and unjust to different people in different ways. Today, Clint Smith teaches you about the experience of enslaved women, and how their experience of slavery was different than men...

Dig into the historic injustice of Japanese American incarceration camps, also known as internment camps, during World War II. On December 7, 1941, 16 year-old Aki Kurose shared in the horror of millions of Americans when Japanese planes...

An illustration by John White (d. 1593 CE) of a North American Indian warrior seen by the first English colonists who attempted to establish a settlement, Roanoke Colony, in 1585 CE (and again in 1587 CE). The colony was located in what is...

American sailors are impressed into the British Navy, wood engraving after Howard Pyle in Harper's Monthly, 1884. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

On 20 December 1803, after the Louisiana Purchase, the American flag is hoisted in New Orleans. Oil on canvas painting by Thure de Thulstrup, 1902. Louisiana State Museum.

Native American house burial, illustration from page 175 of A Further Contribution to the Study of Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1881.

A female North American badger at the Oxbow Zollman Zoo in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA. Photograph by Jonathunder, 2007. Badgers often feature in Native American tales, myths, and legends such as Badger-Woman from the Arapaho.

A view of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. The cemetery commemorates U.S. soldiers who died during the D-Day Normandy Landings of June 1944 and subsequent fighting in the Second World War...

North American Black Bear. Calcite Springs Overlook, Yellowstone National Park, 2011.

A spinning room containing a loom, from the colonial American Mount Vernon Estate.