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The Bath School Massacre remains the deadliest school mass murder in U.S. history. (Wikipedia Commons)
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After Las Vegas, remembering a 20th-century massacre that shocked the world just as much

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Did the flag incident actually happen? (Wikipedia Commons)
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A famous poem about the Civil War isn’t entirely accurate — who really waved that flag?

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And you thought he just wrote a famous poem! (iStock by Getty Images)
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Francis Scott Key’s life was a lot more complicated than just writing The Star-Spangled Banner

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This shot was made a short time before Floyd Collins' last venturesome journey through the mazes of Sand Cave, in Cave City, Kentucky, on Feb. 9, 1925. (AP Photo)
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The first disaster America followed live brought out our worst

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Presidential vacations: Before there was Camp David, there was Camp Hoover
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Presidential vacations: Before there was Camp David, there was Camp Hoover

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Here's wishing sunny skies for your eclipse viewing plans next week. (AP Photo)
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Solar eclipse: How cloudy weather blew everything for a young Albert Einstein

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How did the scientists try to document an eclipse? Black and white photography just couldn't capture the breathtaking moment when the sun's corona appeared. Color photography was still largely experimental and grossly expensive too. So, they invited Howard Russell Butler to memorialize the moment in oil. (Howard Russell Butler via Wikimedia Commons)
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Documenting a solar eclipse, 1918 style

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This is the story of the Peshtigo Fire. (AP Photo/Raphael Poletti)
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You’ve probably never heard of the deadliest wildfire in US history

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In the wake of Rep. Steve Scalise's gunshot injury during a practice for the Congressional Baseball Game, the one thing both sides of the aisle agree on is that political rhetoric is too heated. But they long for the good old days that weren't quite as rosy as they imagine. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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At least our toxic political rhetoric isn’t inciting deadly duels

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Did Sumner's caning cause the Civil War? Hardly. But there's no denying it was yet another stepping stone on the path that ultimately got the country there. (Wikipedia)
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Parallels: Violence against members of Congress and a country divided

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