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Era Archives:1700s

Photo of Former Secretary of State George Marshall, left, with Columbia University president Dwight Eisenhower in the early 1950s

A Rundown of American Presidential Tantrums

by Richard Brookhiser12/27/20222/26/2024
cap-badges-monty-hat

A Look At The Legends Behind British Cap Badge Symbols

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/19/202212/19/2022
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He Fought With Washington At The Siege Of Yorktown—And Wrote About The Experience

by Joseph Plumb Martin12/13/20223/15/2023

Washington Crossing the Delaware — A Christmas Classic

by Dana B. Shoaf12/13/202212/13/2022

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by Zita Ballinger Fletcher12/9/202212/9/2022

Why We Love Pirates: Arrrr Obsession With the Rogues of the Sea

by Claire Barrett12/2/202212/2/2022
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower book cover.

Book Review: The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy / Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower

by Mike Oppenheim11/29/20224/29/2024

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by Claire Barrett11/1/202212/11/2023
Independence Hall in Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met to write the Declaration of Independence 1776. Color lithograph

How American Revolutionaries Ran This Wealthy British Loyalist Family Out of Philadelphia

by Jonathan House10/4/202210/4/2022
President Lyndon Johnson, right, poses May 14, 1968 at the White House with four winners of the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor. Decorated for valor in Vietnam, they are, from left: Air Force Capt. Gerald O. Young, of Anacortes, Wash.; Navy Bosn"s Mate James E. Williams, of Rock Hill, S.C.; Marine Sgt. Richard A. Pittman, of Stockton, Calif. and Army Spc. 5 Charles C. Hagmeister, of Lincoln, Neb. Others are unidentified. (AP photo)

Is the Medal of Honor Overrated?

by Jerry D. Morelock9/6/202212/14/2022

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