She was born Isabella Baumfree in New York in 1797
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Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation.
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Hubert Harrison: Harlem’s ‘Black Socrates’
Shocked by American racism, Caribbean immigrant pushed education and self-empowerment
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Daily Quiz for May 9, 2019
This Airborne Division’s motto was “Thunder From Heaven”.
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The U.S. Navy’s Curtiss NC-4: First Across the Atlantic
In the spring of 1919, three Navy-Curtiss flying boats set out to beat the competition and be the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hiking the Hills of Guadalcanal, Where World War II Tourism Meets the Tropics
Galloping Horse Ridge is a grueling hike for history buffs
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How These Elite Civil War Marksmen Changed the Face of Warfare
Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory
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The War in Their Words: ‘The Meramack Headed Directly For Us’
A Union sailor left a remarkable first-hand account of the struggle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia.
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How North Vietnam Claimed More Aces Than It Really Had
Before Pham Thanh Ngan became the first ace of the Vietnam War, 11 other pilots had claimed the same status