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Confederate Monuments as a Constant Reminder of Separatism
Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith discusses Stone Mountain's psychological toll on Black people
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An Alternative Rationalization for the Civil War
Hasan Jeffries explains why some Southerners try to reframe the causes of the Civil War.
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Endangered National Symbol
The effect of DDT on the Bald Eagle population in the northeastern U.S. was devastating.
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Restoring and Hacking Bald Eagles in NY
David talks to Peter Nye, the biologist who saved the bald eagle population in New York.
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The Bald Eagle Appears in the First Great Seal of the U.S.
Why did the Founding Fathers decide to use the bald eagle in the Great Seal of the U.S.?