Politics and Military
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3.8KJohn Adams Skipped the Inauguration of His Successor. So Did His Son.
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
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4.4KAgrippa Hull, Race Under British Rule
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
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4.6KMary Antin, Poster Child for Letting Immigrants Into America
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
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10.9KThe New Hampshire Recount That Went On For 19 Months
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
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4.3KJoseph Brant, Mohawk Leader, Goes to Dartmouth (Before It Was Dartmouth)
On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...
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6.1KSix Fun Facts About Henry Adams
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
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