The first person enrolled in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps in this month and year.
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Daily Quiz for August 14, 2011
The world’s oldest military museum that is built on the actual battlefield it commemorates is in this country.
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Daily Quiz for August 13, 2011
This famous television comedy series premiered in 1951 and was the only new comedy of that season to last more than two years.
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“A Mud Hut in Manchuria”: Why We Fight, Part 2
Last week I wrote about Frank Capra and his incomparable Why We Fight series […]
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Daily Quiz for August 12, 2011
Richard Kidder Meade’s Civil War career is remembered primarily for this.
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Daily Quiz for August 11, 2011
Germany first used poison gas on a large scale in this Western Front battle of World War I.
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Daily Quiz for August 10, 2011
The leader of this country called for the first Hague Conference, 1899, to discuss disarmament, limitations on warfare, and arbitration of international boundary disputes.
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Daily Quiz for August 9, 2011
The Rebecca Riots took place in this country in the 1840s.
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Letter from Vietnam magazine – August 2011
The cost of bringing our wars home Last April, in Benghazi, Libya, two photographers […]
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DVD Review – Our Vietnam Generation
Our Vietnam Generation is a documentary film containing oral histories of Michigan’s Vietnam War veterans, as well as interviews with family members and academics. The DVD also contains a tour of today’s Vietnam.