Robert Smalls: The Slave Who Stole a Confederate Warship and Became a Congressman
(via mental_floss) Robert Smalls was an enslaved African American who, during and after the American Civil War, gained freedom and
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The First Democratic Convention on Live TV Was the Last Not to be Air-Conditioned
(via Atlas Obscura) The 1948 presidential campaign, which would later result in one of the most famously wrong newspaper headlines
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