Politics and Military
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7.6KLincoln’s Bixby Letter, The Inspiration for Saving Private Ryan
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
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12.8K4Moses Davis, The Maine Cabinetmaker Who Built a Fort
A wooden blockhouse that still stands by the Sheepscot River is the unlikely legacy of a cabinetmaker named Moses Davis who strongly disagreed...
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2.8KThe Wiscasset Incident Sets Off Maine’s Indian Wars of 1750
The Wiscasset Incident occurred on December 2, 1749. That day gun shots rang out in the woods of Wiscasset, Maine. Sailors from...
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5.0KCamp Edwards, Cape Cod’s World War II City
One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
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4.7KThe Fabulous McLeans and Their Hoodoo Diamond
When Evalyn and Ned McLean got married in 1908, they seemed to have it all. A golden couple, they had wealth, connections...
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