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This Week in People’s History, Sep 23–29, 2026

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Sailors on the deck of the USS Monitor during the Civil War Non-Discrimination Fills the Civil War Navy’s Recruitment Goal (1861), Are Storms of Moral Indignation a Thing of the Past? (1852), The World Gets Its First Billionaire (1916), Teaching Black Children to Accept a Debased Place Within Society (1760)

The Letelier-Moffitt Case at 50: The Verdict of History on Pinochet’s Role

National Security Archive National Security Archive
The National Security Archive has published new FBI records on the “CHILBOM” investigation into the Washington, D.C., car bombing that Killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt. FBI Agents interviewed Henry Kissinger on Pinochet’s Role.

Sweden’s 2026 Election on a Knife-Edge

Duroyan Fertl Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The September 13 vote was a test not only of who will govern Sweden – at a national, regional and local level – but of whether the public services, democracy, and egalitarianism that Sweden once claimed to represent and be defended and restored.
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