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Ted Kaczynski being led by two law enforcement officers.

Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.

by Alston Chase via The Atlantic on June 1, 2000

Black and white photograph of James Baldwin

A Report from Occupied Territory

These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.

by James Baldwin via The Nation on July 11, 1966

The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

After Sacco and Vanzetti's final appeal was rejected, Felix Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard Law School, laid out the many problems with their trials.

by Felix Frankfurter via The Atlantic on March 1, 1927

A man standing in the rubble that was his home before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The front of the postcard contains a printed caption stating, "All That Was Left of His Home After the Tulsa Race Riot, 6-1-1921."

Tulsa, 1921

On the 100th anniversary of the riot in that city, we commemorate the report written for this magazine by a remarkable journalist.

by Walter Francis White, Russell Cobb via The Nation on June 15, 1921

Portrait of George Washington

Conotocarious

When Native Americans met George Washington in 1753, they called him by the Algonquian name "Conotocarious," meaning "town taker" or "devourer of villages."

via The Digital Encyclopedia Of George Washington

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