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Region Archives:Americas

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

by Dana B. Shoaf9/26/20239/26/2023

New Army Museum Exhibit Tells the Story of Hero Working Dogs

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher9/25/20239/27/2023
GAR Post in Eastport, Maine

The Civil War in Maine: A Unique Slice of History

by Diane Monroe Smith9/25/20239/12/2023
Interior of Bill King’s saloon, Colorado City, Texas

Requiem for a Forgotten West Texas Cow Town

by Preston Lewis9/22/20239/22/2023
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

Live Your Wild West Fantasy on the Outlaw Trail with This New Travel Guide

by Krista Simmons9/19/20239/19/2023
Photo of a general view of The Boott Cotton Mill Museum in the former textile manufacturing town of Lowell on the Merrimack River as part of the Lowell National Historical Park and the National Park Service on November 5, 2014 in Lowell, Massachuetts.

Young Women Were America’s First Industrial Workforce

by Carl Zebrowski9/19/20238/1/2023
Photo of U.S Soldiers from the 101st cavalry division have set up these 105mm howitzers in a sand bagged fire-base at an elevated site in the center of the a Shau Valley in South Vietnam, August 12, 1968. From this position, gunners can give excellent fire support to men operating in the valley below.

What Are the Limits of Firepower? Maj. Gen. Robert Scales Speaks About America’s Way of War in Vietnam

by Warren Wilkins9/18/20239/18/2023
Louisiana Tigers painted by Keith Rocco

How Wheat’s Tigers’ Opening Gambit at First Manassas Turned to Legend

by Richard H. Holloway9/18/20239/12/2023
Dirt road in Lincoln County, Kansas

How a Fight Over Water Rights Between Two Farmers Ended in One’s Murder and the Other’s Lynching

by Lawton R. Nuss9/15/20236/8/2023

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