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Sugar Changed the World

Sugar has left a bloody trail through human history. Cane--not cotton or tobacco--drove the bloody Atlantic slave trade and took the lives of countless Africans who toiled on vast sugar plantations under cruel overseers. And yet the very popularity…

Seattle's Freeway Revolt: A Directory of Historical Resources

Direcory of resources on the opposition to a freeway system throughout Seattle in the 1960s, 70s.

Forbidden city U.S.A.

Features interviews with nightclub performers, histories of individual clubs and illustrations of memorabilia.

Internment Today

Relates WWII internment with post 9/11 profiling. Summariezes the essays in the book by Erica Harth Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans.

History MIS-ing in action

A showing of the video, "Uncommon Courage: Patriotism and Civil Liberties" at the Denver Buddhist Temple was followed by a panel of MIS veterans recounting their experiences during WWII and the occupation.