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Nov 20 2008

To some extent, the Boston Tea Party was the result of unintended [...] »

Nov 13 2008

Historians cannot claim to prove beyond doubt that occurrences in the past [...] »

Sep 18 2008

Ireland's revolutionary struggle against Britain played out in North America [...] »

Aug 18 2008

Milton Friedman and Herbert Hoover are excellent sources.

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Aug 11 2008

Historians have attempted to account for the great admiration that whites [...] »

Jul 30 2008

The 1850s were a time of rapid industrialization and urbanization in the [...] »

Jul 7 2008

What do Presidents Ulysses Grant and Franklin Roosevelt have in common? Both [...] »

Jun 30 2008

Linear battle formations date at least to the early 17th century.

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Jun 23 2008

Find out how this battle flag came into being.

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Jun 23 2008

Accounts of Abraham Lincoln's dream of a presidential assassination vary, [...] »