While studying America, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville had the opportunity to probe the mind of governor-turned-honorary-Cherokee Sam Houston
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The First: Book Printed in America
For the flock of Puritans who founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, a physical […]
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Interview: Paul E. Peterson / Saving Schools, From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning
In Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning (Harvard University Press, 2010), Harvard’s […]
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American History Gazette- October 2010
Artists Carve Digital Rushmore Getting up close and personal with Mount Rushmore may soon […]
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The Legislative Donnybrook Behind Trust-Busting
Could members of Congress really have intended the Sherman Antitrust Act to do what it said?
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The Price of Valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
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Daily Quiz for January 4, 2018
The first ruling monarch to visit the White House did so during this president’s administration.
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Book Review: The Women Jefferson Loved
The Women Jefferson Loved by Virginia Scharff; Harper Thomas Jefferson’s decades-long affair with the […]
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American History Book Review: The Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell by Gary Nash, Yale How did a pair of enterprising 19th-century […]
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American History Review: Lego Architecture
Lego Architecture: Towering Ambition National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (www.nbm.org) In the 19th century, […]