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Otherwise known as the Golden Spike Ceremony, this historic event 2 elleng May 2023 May 2023 1 480
Lincoln Quote of The Week... 1 elleng May 2023 May 2023 7 493
On This Day in History May 14, 1804 Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest 0 elleng May 2023 May 2023 4 456
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ANNOUNCES HARLEM RENAISSANCE EXHIBITION 0 elleng Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 549
"Fight for the things that you care about, 1 elleng Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 350
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Grandson in southern MD learning U.S. History! 4th grade 0 elleng Sep 2023 Sep 2023 6 689
In the small village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant 0 elleng Apr 10 Apr 10 1 457
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A Mexican Immigrant’s Act of Honor 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1596
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Black History Month: Debunking the 10 biggest myths about black history 5 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 3974
Monument for black Revolutionary War patriots readied for Senate consideration 2 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2120
Robert Higgs: Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism? 16 ellisonz Dec 2011 Feb 2012 1 4919
In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1947
150 years later, Dakota war wounds still cut deep 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1576
Chilling tape from Air Force One on day JFK shot 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1683
LAT: Huntington acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 3 2477
1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2730

American History Continued...

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U.S. Holocaust Museum refutes FDR supporters' defense of failure to bomb Auschwitz 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Apr 2012 0 2461
Former President John Tyler’s (1790-1862) grandchildren still alive 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1896
Okay Historians, Summarize Newt Gingrich in Four Words 1 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1954
Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1682
Texas crews excavate bones of purported ex-slaves 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1763
66 Years After He Saved a Navy Ship, Another Battle Is Won 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1661
Washington Monument gets $7.5M for repairs 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1601
Ron Paul invokes the ... Millard Fillmore doctrine? 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1821
Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary take on the Bible reissued 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1858
Michael H. Hunt: How Beijing Sees Us 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2552
Gorbachev: Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? 9 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 1 4018
Strange But True: Ron Paul Thinks The American Civil War Was 'Unnecessary' 12 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 5498
Passions for the past — and jobs — come alive at history convention 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1638
The 7th Annual Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1741
Candidates Show Fondness for World War II References 6 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3098
Woody Guthrie: Bound for Local Glory at Last 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2114
Bill deals with sailors killed in 1804, Jewish WWI heroes, ship names 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2076
Only 1/3rd of Americans Supported the American Revolution? 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3188
The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2635
"J. Edgar" Fails to Deliver the Historical Goods 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 2639
Famous photo of female Pearl Harbor firefighters debunked 6 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 4765
Kennedy, Reagan, Loved for All the Wrong Reasons: Robert Dallek 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1465
Pearl Harbor Still a Day for the Ages, but a Memory Almost Gone (Pearl Harbor Survivors Group Ends) 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 3 1965
Theodore and Barack in Osawatomie 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 1667
Jonathan Zimmerman: Newt Gingrich, Pseudo-Historian 4 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 4 2157
Please Keep Your Government Hands On My University 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1695
If you could describe the history of America in one word... 33 ellisonz Feb 2012 Sep 2012 0 28286
Finley Peter Dunne - Great American Humorist or Greatest American Humorist? 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2828
As World War One centennial nears, fight erupts over memorial 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 2984
America's history: Interior department tries to better tell history of all Americans 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1420

American History Continued...

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Brooklyn hunts for spirit of 1776 soldiers 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2391
Census documenting Great Depression to be released 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 1674
Search for Amelia Earhart Starts Again 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2727
New Look at an Old Memo Casts More Doubt on Rehnquist 4 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 1 2459
Eric Foner: Rooted in Reconstruction ... The First Wave of Black Congressmen 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1689
Professional Boredom 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1582
Why are Americans so bad at studying history? 29 ellisonz Apr 2012 Jun 2012 0 9685
Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline 4 ellisonz Apr 2012 Apr 2012 0 2906
Award Winners at the 2012 OAH/NCPH Meeting (Looking for Good Reads?) 1 ellisonz Apr 2012 May 2012 1 2035
A Little Trouble in Big China 1 ellisonz May 2012 May 2012 0 1820
How Mormon History has Shaped Mitt Romney 1 ellisonz May 2012 May 2012 0 2043
Who is your favorite Founding Father? (Poll) 11 ellisonz May 2012 Jun 2012 0 4290
SOCOM Unleashed: Globalizing the Global War on Terror 0 ellisonz Jun 2012 Jun 2012 0 1822
Malcolm X house, Philly gym on list of endangered historic sites 2 ellisonz Jun 2012 Sep 2012 1 2051
Great Moments in Health Insurance Industry History 2 ellisonz Jul 2012 Jul 2012 2 2051
History of Veterans Day 0 ellisonz Nov 2012 Nov 2012 3 1448
Adams or Jefferson? (Poll) 17 ellisonz Oct 2015 Oct 2017 0 5941
Alabama's last known real daughter of the Confederacy buried in Cullman (al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 Feb 2012 1 1783
{16th-Century Spanish} Santa Elena fort found {on Parris Island, SC} after decades-long search 0 eppur_se_muova Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 1536
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