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Buried History Part 2: Taking the Fight To Congress

Previously on Buried History: As an independence movement in Puerto Rico falters, two men attempt to take down President Truman while he's staying at Blair House in Washington, DC. In the aftermath of the failed insurrection and assassination, President Truman offered Puerto Rico a false choice. In 1952,

History Repeats - The Palmer Raids

News has come out that on Tuesday, January 21 newly inaugurated president Donald Trump is planning mass raids of “illegal immigrants” to occur in Chicago. Residents are being urged to have documentation of their citizenship on their person if they live in communities with large immigrant populations or work at

Buried History Part 1: A Shooting at Blair House

On the afternoon of November 1, 1950, two men walked up to Blair House in Washington, D.C. and began what would be known as the biggest gunfight in Secret Service history. The island of Puerto Rico was one of the Spanish empire’s many Caribbean possessions. Throughout much of