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People Archives:U.S. Presidents

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George Washington Needed to Keep His Spies Hidden. So He Financed a Secret Lab For Invisible Ink.

by Damien Cregeau11/15/202312/18/2023

Book review: A Brutal Reckoning / Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

by Rick Beard11/8/20234/29/2024

Fateful Moment in Time

by Christopher Howland11/7/202311/8/2023
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“Fighting Joe” Hooker Literally Cleaned Up the Army of the Potomac During the Civil War

by Rick Britton11/2/202311/3/2023
Photo of President Nixon flanked by charts he used to illustrate his televised speech from the White House 4/7 in which he announced he will withdraw an additional 100,000 U.S. troops by December 1. The charts show the authorized troops level in South Vietnam.

This Signal Operator Witnessed Nixon’s Withdrawals from Vietnam. What He Saw Convinced Him it Wasn’t Working

by David L. Anderson10/25/20234/26/2024

Fokker’s Trimotor

by Tom Huntington10/11/202310/12/2023
Photo of three American advisers, who had to abandon the Quang Tri base camp 19 miles south of the DMZ in face of enemy offensive, crouch in ditch for protection against incoming North Vietnamese Artillery. The soldiers were making their way to nearby city of Quang tri, South Vietnam on April 3, 1972.

As US Troops Withdrew From Vietnam in 1972, This City Refused to Surrender to Communist Invaders

by John D. Howard10/9/202310/9/2023
Painting of a Indian burial mound excavated in 1850 near the Mississippi River, varied in height and dimension. They were typically erected in layers over several hundred years.

Thomas Jefferson, Grave Digger

by Rick Britton10/3/202311/9/2023

Tickets Auctioned From the Night of Lincoln’s Murder at Ford’s Theatre

by Dana B. Shoaf9/26/20239/26/2023
Photo of James Michael Curley bending the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

Tweet! Jailbird Politicians, An American Staple

by Richard Brookhiser9/20/20239/20/2023

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