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A Scuttled Reservoir Yields Texas Treasurenew

A reservoir project rejected by voters more than a decade ago is set to become one of the most important living-history sites in the nation.

San Antonio Current | Elaine Wolff | 01-09-2008 | History

Tags: Texas, history, Native Americans, Mission Indians

Prison Riot!new

Cuban refugees took over the Atlanta Federal Pen 20 years ago. It turned into the longest prison takeover in U.S. history.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Scott Henry | 11-28-2007 | History

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Cathy Wilkerson: Exploding the '60snew

She survived the infamous Weatherman bomb-factory explosion, life underground, and prison. In Flying Close to the Sun, she offers her life and times for all time.

Boston Phoenix | Clif Garboden | 10-25-2007 | History

Tags: antiwar, history, anti-war, MOVEMENT, 1960s, '60s, 11th, 18, 60s, anarchist, bombings, Cathy, East, explosion, street, townhouse, Weatherman, Wilkerson

Bukowski and Me

Blood, literature and a night in the drunk tank: Poet Alan Justiss recalls his wild years with photographer Claude Powell and poet Charles Bukowski.

Folio Weekly | Alan Justiss | 09-04-2007 | History

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Ghost Hunting in South Carolinanew

Southern Paranormal Investigation and Research visits Charleston's Old Jail, the final home for some of city's most infamous murderers and crooks until shuttered in the 1930s.

Charleston City Paper | Greg Hambrick | 08-31-2007 | History

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Grave Concernsnew

Cemetery conservation is both a passion and a demanding profession.

Boulder Weekly | Grace Hood | 07-26-2007 | History

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What the Detroit 'Riot' Meantnew

Forty years on, the city's root problems remain.

Metro Times | Jack Lessenberry | 07-24-2007 | History

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But What If They Weren't Gay?new

The worst internal scandal in NSA history was blamed on Cold War defectors' homosexuality -- but formerly classified Pentagon and NSA documents appear to clear them of the sexual charges.

Seattle Weekly | Rick Anderson | 07-23-2007 | History

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You Say You Want a Revolution?new

In which our embedded "foreign" correspondent joins a crew of noise-rock fans to re-enact the Battle of Hubbardton, Vermont's only Revolutionary War encounter.

Boston Phoenix | James Parker | 07-19-2007 | History

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Choosing Icons: A Frank Lloyd Wright Story of Buffalonew

The architect pointed his cane: "Who did this? Who made these changes? This is not my work."

Artvoice | Bruce Fisher | 07-06-2007 | History

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New Info Uncovered on Campaign to Crush the Progressive Minersnew

Bombings, shootings, and other violence were common during the labor strife of the 1930s, when two unions battled for supremacy in the central Illinois coalfields.

Illinois Times | C.D. Stelzer | 06-21-2007 | History

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