The 1916 film The Frozen Warning featured this figure skater, the first skater to star in a motion picture.
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Jackie Robinson: Baseball’s Noble Experiment
Jackie Robinson broke the “color line” in baseball, the first African American to play on an integrated major league team. He endured with dignity the racism of many fans and other players and opened major league ball for all black players.
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Letter From American History
Stolen Treasures A hallmark of American democracy we tend to take for granted is […]
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American History on the Web – Savages and Scoundrels
www.savagesandscoundrels.org Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America’s Road to Empire Through Indian […]
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Thaddeus Stevens
Meet the real Thaddeus Stevens, the man who inspired Tommy Lee Jones’ impassioned performance in Spielberg’s Lincoln.
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Oh What a Lucky Man, III
The theme of this column lately has been the way that Americans are keeping […]
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MHQ Reviews: Pirates on DVD
Gene Santoro reviews the Discovery Channel’s “Pirates: Scourge of the Seven Seas” just out on DVD
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A good book for understanding Middle East conflict?
Can you please recommend a good book, fiction or non-fiction, to explain how the […]
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Daily Quiz for February 19, 2013
This Civil War naval officer was the first to hold the ranks of rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral.
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Daily Quiz for February 18, 2013
The Bible’s New Testament was originally written in Greek and the Old Testament in Hebrew, except for some chapters in Daniel and Ezra, which were written in this language.