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August 24, 2013 3:01 PM

What the March on Washington called for, and what we got

Wednesday marks the 50th celebration of the March on Washington, and it's a little hard to resist the urge to compare the America of 1963 to 2013, to see how they've diverged. Although the "I have a dream" and the "content of their character" bits tend to get top billing in these remembrances, the event was called "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" -- and it's worth noting that the word "jobs" comes before "freedom."

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August 24, 2013 11:43 AM

NBC re-airing Martin Luther King Jr. interview

NBC News says it will rebroadcast a 1963 "Meet the Press" interview with Martin Luther King Jr. in honor of the March on Washington's 50th anniversary next week.

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July 27, 2013 12:08 PM

Researchers uncover little-known internment camp

Deep in the mountains of northern Idaho lies evidence of a little-known portion of a shameful chapter of American history. There are no buildings, signs or markers to indicate what happened at the site 70 years ago, but researchers sifting through the dirt have found broken porcelain, old medicine bottles and lost artwork identifying the location of the first internment camp where the U.S. government used people of Japanese ancestry as a workforce during World War II.

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July 21, 2013 12:01 AM

Scrapbooks give peek inside Hemingway's early life

Ernest Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, started a series of scrapbooks documenting the childhood of the future Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner by describing how the sun shone and robins sang on the day in July 1899 when he was born. Starting Sunday, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston will make the content of five Hemingway scrapbooks available online for the first time.

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July 14, 2013 9:47 AM

Minn. exhibit explores US-Native American treaties

A new exhibit at Bemidji State University explores the relationship between Native Americans and both the federal and state government.

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July 7, 2013 7:00 AM

Ground Level: Reviving Minnesota relics

Residents in hundreds of Minnesota towns in recent years have wrestled with what to do with prominent old buildings that no longer define the community. The efficiency of demolition weighs against an instinct to preserve. Many have struggled to find new uses, to create new souls. This Ground Level project portrays the difficulties, the angst, the cost and the lessons learned by people making an effort to refresh their towns by saving an icon.

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June 30, 2013 12:49 PM

As 'war' rages, Gettysburg vendors hope to cash in

As re-enacted war raged several miles away, tourists strolled a commercial strip of Gettysburg to survey T-shirts, hats and other trinkets to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's pivotal battle. More than 200,000 people -- including thousands of re-enactors -- are expected to visit this small south-central Pennsylvania town through Fourth of July weekend to mark the milestone.