When The President Asks You To Come To The White House And Rap For Him …

What do Alexander Hamilton and hip hop have in common? More than I thought. Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda’s incredible performance at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word in May of 2009.

Politics

Mom’s persuasive letter reminding her son to ‘be a good boy’ helped women gain the right to vote

Finance

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Culture

How a German pigeon named ‘Kaiser’ became one of the longest-held POWs in American history

Culture

83 years ago, a Christian woman faked a pregnancy to save a Jewish baby from the Holocaust