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All posts tagged "American history"

Idaho9 months ago

The chief who signed away 90% of Nez Perce territory to illegal gold miners and sparked a war
Kentucky9 months ago

The day Daniel Boone ignored his own warning and lost his son to a Shawnee ambush at Blue Licks, Kentucky
Rhode Island9 months ago

How a 21-year-old’s photographic memory helped launch the Industrial Revolution in 18th century Rhode Island
Louisiana9 months ago

The Red River trap where Confederate General Taylor almost captured an entire Union corps at Louisiana’s Cane River
Louisiana9 months ago

From slavery to plantation empire: how one woman created Louisiana’s wealthiest free family of color in 1800s
Texas9 months ago

How indigenous South Texans abandoned 11,000 years of culture to survive European colonization
New York9 months ago

The daredevil “Sky Workers” who built the Empire State building at as fast as four stories per week
Virginia9 months ago

When Confederate slaves rowed to this Virginia fort, they unknowingly set a precedent for the Emancipation Proclamation
New York9 months ago

How German saboteurs terrorized New York harbor and permanently scarred Lady Liberty in 1916
Hawaii9 months ago

After converting to Christianity, this Hawaiian princess walked into an active volcano to prove Pele had no power
Washington9 months ago

“I Have a Dream” wasn’t in MLK’s originial speech — until Mahalia Jackson interfered
Washington9 months ago

When disability activists forced Congress to add FDR’s wheelchair to his memorial and remove the “shroud of shame”

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