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BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

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On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...