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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

PureHistory: Book Club

Fated: Torn Apart by History, Bound for Eternity

April 26, 2012

Fated: Torn Apart by History, Bound for Eternity by: Carolyn McCray, Amazon.com Carolyn has had a…

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William Loren Katz

April 11, 2012

William Loren Katz is the author of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage and 40 other books…

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New Book: Black Fives

March 29, 2012

The Alpha Physical Culture Club's Pioneering African American Basketball Team, 1904-1923 Authored by: Claude…

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African American Women Chemists

March 06, 2012

Planned Giving Fundraising Video - American Chemical Society - Jeannette Brown This video of…

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