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Gottlieb, W. P. (1947) Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt Milton Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. United States, 1947. , Monographic. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https
International Jazz Day: Jazz and Democracy
Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 12:32pm | By Andy Kingston
In 2011, UNESCO teamed up with the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz to designate April 30th as International Jazz Day “in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting people in all corners...

Credit: Image Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Accessed through the New Mexico Digital Repository
Sufragista y más: Adelina "Nina" Otero-Warren
Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 1:22pm | By Dr. Anna M Nogar
Nuevomexicana Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren (1881-1965) is one of the outstanding early feminist figures in United States history and an actor for representation...

Credit: Ida B. Wells. Late 19th century Credit: From Wikimedia Commons
Ida B. Wells: The Power of the Pen
Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 12:24pm | By Ina Jane
"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” (I.B. Wells) Ida B. Wells, a renowned American journalist and social activist from Holly Springs,...

Credit: Creative Commons photo of MLK
The Last MLK Day
Sat, Jan 1, 2022, 12:00am | By Hakim Bellamy
“On August 6th, 1965, the President’s Room of the Capitol could scarcely hold the multitude of of white and Negro leaders crowding it. President Lyndon Johnson’s high spirits were marked...

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Instrument of Change: A Brief Look at Photography in the United States
Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 6:34pm | By Mathew Contos
Some of the earliest photographs in history captured the brutality of war, a major departure from the heroic and romantic stylization of battle paintings that preceded them. Photographs of the Mexican-American...

Scene at Signing of the Constitution of the United States." Credit: Howard Chandler Christy, 1940
America’s Constitution: A Machine That Does Not Run By Itself
Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 9:28am | By Christian Fritz
When the Founding Fathers drafted America’s frame of government in Philadelphia during the constitutional convention of 1787, they knew they had begun a journey and not completed a task. By creating...

Miguel Trujillo with his daughter Josephine. Credit: Photo Courtesy from the collection of Josephine Waconda.
Miguel Trujillo
Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 12:09am | By Gordon Bronitsky
For most Americans, Indians remain the backdrop to American history. Indian heroes are the warriors of the past. Miguel Trujillo was an Isleta Pueblo Indian living at Laguna who directly confronted the...

George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart Credit: Retrieved from the Library of Congress
Washington’s Farewell Address: Timeless Wisdom
Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 9:38am | By Brandon Johnson
A lesson from Washington’s earlier life illustrates his deep understanding of how unchecked power and privilege can do violence to the fragile nature of liberty and self-government.
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