Forget the myths and give the first president his due
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Daily Quiz for September 12, 2018
After a thirty year battle in Congress between Ohio and Michigan, the “Toledo Strip” was awarded to Ohio and Michigan received this parcel of land.
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American History Book Review: Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present By […]
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Speaking American
An 1816 church election threw fuel on a fiery national debate about immigrants, patriotism […]
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From ‘Belgian Rattlesnakes’ to BARs
The static fighting of World War I proved a catalyst for the development of an integral component of the modern mobile battlefield: the light machine gun
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The Unreal City
Think of the Western Front as a great metropolis, whose chief industry was not production but destruction. From 1914 until 1918 it was the largest city on earth
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Memories of A Devil Dog
MHQ frequently receives unsolicited first-person accounts of veterans’ experience of battle, and in March […]
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Medal Diplomacy
A collection of peace tokens given to American Indians sets a whopping new record […]