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Region Archives:Americas

Lewis and Clark Expedition titled Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by Charles Marion Russell depicting Sacagawea with arms outstretched

Lewis and Clark’s Race Against Spain

by By Mike Coppock1/24/20231/24/2023
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The Confederacy’s First Modern Warrior: Who Was James Longstreet?

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How the Union Tried—and Failed—to Capture the Confederacy’s ‘Gray Ghost’

by John Singleton Mosby1/20/20234/26/2024

Was Billy the Kid’s Murder Trial Fair?

by David G. Thomas1/20/20231/20/2023
Draft riots in New York

American History is Full of Controversial Drafts. The Union Civil War Draft Was No Exception.

by A. James Fuller1/19/202311/7/2022
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Was the Boeing 247 Really Everything It’s Supposed to Be?

by Stephan Wilkinson1/18/20231/18/2023

Thousands of Misspellings, Mistakes and Omissions Found in US Korean War Veterans Memorial

by Zamone Perez1/17/20231/17/2023
Photo of Manzanar Relocation Center. During the winter the Manzanar Relocation Center had no hope of disguising itself as anything but what it was: punitive confinement.

Ansel Adams Hauntingly Beautiful Images: Photographing the Despair of Japanese-American Internment

by Richard J. Goodrich1/17/202311/1/2022
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Turmoil in Richmond: Joe Johnston, Jefferson Davis Command Alliance Was Doomed From the Start

by Richard H. Holloway1/17/20231/17/2023
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‘The Third Man’: An Unflinchingly Look at the Unsettling Truths of War

by Mark Grimsley1/13/20231/13/2023

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