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      The Return of Plundered Belongings Offers a Chance for Healing to a Grieving Lakota Community 170 Years After a Long-Forgotten Massacre
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/return-plundered-heirlooms-offers-chance-healing-grieving-lakota-community-170-after-long-forgotten-massacre-180987246/
      Published: August 27, 2025 17:00
      In the conclusion of a long-awaited turn of events, the Great Plains tribe has now reclaimed cherished items stolen from their ancestors by the U.S. Army
    
  
    
      Strongheart the German Shepherd Catapulted to Fame for His Heroics in Silent Films. Later, Spiritualist Writings Immortalized Him in Death
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/strongheart-the-german-shepherd-catapulted-to-fame-for-his-heroics-in-silent-films-later-spiritualist-writings-immortalized-him-in-death-180987212/
      Published: August 26, 2025 11:00
      The beloved dog starred in six movies during the Roaring Twenties. After Strongheart died in 1929, author J. Allen Boone chronicled their enduring connection in a pair of nonfiction books
    
  
    
      To Protest British Taxes, Men Dumped Tea Into Boston Harbor. With the Edenton Tea Party, Colonial Women Took a Different Approach
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/to-protest-british-taxes-men-dumped-tea-into-boston-harbor-with-the-edenton-tea-party-colonial-women-took-different-approach-180987189/
      Published: August 22, 2025 11:00
      In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods
    
  
    
      How Davy Crockett, the Rugged Frontiersman Killed at the Alamo, Became an Unlikely American Hero
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-davy-crockett-the-rugged-frontiersman-killed-at-the-alamo-became-an-unlikely-american-hero-180987140/
      Published: August 18, 2025 11:00
      During his lifetime, Crockett—who went by David, not Davy—shaped his own myth. In the 20th century, his legacy got a boost from none other than Walt Disney
    
  
    
      How the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act Enabled the Nation's Capital to Govern Itself—With Congressional Oversight
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1973-dc-home-rule-act-enabled-the-nations-capital-to-govern-itself-with-congressional-oversight-180987180/
      Published: August 14, 2025 21:13
      Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been around as long as the District of Columbia itself
    
  
    
      This Visionary African American Politician Dreamed of Creating an All-Black State in Oklahoma Territory
      https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-visionary-african-american-politician-dreamed-of-creating-an-all-black-state-in-oklahoma-territory-180987093/
      Published: August 12, 2025 11:00
      Edward P. McCabe petitioned Benjamin Harrison for an opportunity to show him that Black people "are men and women capable of self‑government." When the president was unmoved, McCabe and his followers went west anyway