Two escaped slaves from Kentucky touched off riots in Detroit and set an international legal precedent.
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One Nation Under God
There is perhaps no more personal issue than religion, and there are few things […]
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Audiobook Review | The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address
Political consultant and author Joseph Rodota captures the Watergate’s fifty years playing host to Washington’s powerful and notorious.
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A Day to Remember: April 17,1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion
The United States’ intervention in the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain, which brought […]
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American History Almanac- April 2007
CSI: Mount Vernon The nation’s oldest house museum has been propelled into the 21st […]
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Valor | No Hometown Hero
In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Ireland was part of the […]
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Daily Quiz for September 14, 2018
This U.S. Representative who eventually represented two states was imprisoned for violating the Sedition Act of 1798.
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D Day 1917
Haig’s innovative plan to invade the Belgian coast may have been doomed from the start, but he had glimpsed the future, and someday his ideas would work
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What Happened at Celtic Wood?
In October 1917, during the Passchendaele attacks, there occurred the most celebrated missing-persons case of World War I
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Pershing’s Eyes in the Sky
As a freshly minted lieutenant in the Twelfth Aero Squadron, Robert Paradise took to the sky as one of the Army Air Service’s early aerial observation pilots.