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'Dollar Princesses': American Women Married British Aristocrats, 1870- 1920, The Gilded Age 12 appalachiablue Feb 2022 Feb 2022 5 2329
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Biden Signs Bill to Honor WWII Ghost Army Soldiers 1 Sherman A1 Feb 2022 Feb 2022 8 1191
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JFK: 61 years ago today. 1 Tomconroy Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1226
EDUCATION OF THE ENSLAVED WAS A CRIME, 1 elleng Jan 2022 Jan 2022 8 1220
Union Stops Confed Attempt To Capture US Capital - Battle of Ft Stevens 1864, Lincoln Wash Defenses 2 appalachiablue Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1678
Weary from the strain of war and too much time away from home, General George Washington 3 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1450
December 28, 1832 - Missouri Governor Daniel Dunklin signed the charter for St. Louis University 0 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 0 1173
134-year-old Confederate time capsule possibly found under removed Robert E. Lee statue 8 Sherman A1 Dec 2021 Dec 2021 9 2191
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement 0 Eugene Dec 2021 Dec 2021 3 1150
Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam 7 Uncle Joe Dec 2021 Dec 2021 7 1765
The Founding of the United States On This Day in History December 3, 1776: 1 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 1292
Learn Our History Today: On December 2, 1823, during his annual address to Congress, 0 elleng Dec 2021 Dec 2021 8 1274
St. Louis homeowners want to get rid of racial covenants. But in Missouri, it's complicated 2 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Dec 2021 7 1603
How a Coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 0 1251
Alabama researchers closing in on site of Spanish explorer's pivotal battle with Chief Tascalusa 1 eppur_se_muova Nov 2021 Nov 2021 3 1497
Santa Fe Trail, Part 4: The pain of Native life on the trail 2 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 1 1400
Path carved history into New Mexico; so did those who traveled it 3 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1404
WW2: Did The British Kill Glenn Miller? Famous American Musician, Band Leader 3 appalachiablue Nov 2021 Nov 2021 2 2009
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Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was both a filmmaker and a minister who, between 1924 and 1928, 0 elleng Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 1282
Summer 1812: The USS Constitution shatters the aura of British naval superiority 1 Sherman A1 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 9 1378
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American History Continued...

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The Two Navy Holidays: Navy Birthday and Navy Day 1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1296
7 Black Americans Express Their Rage In The 1960s 1 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 1428
Woody Guthrie Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 3 1273
Former Slaves In Alabama In 1936-1937 With Slave Song "Waitin On You" 0 appalachiablue Oct 2021 Oct 2021 10 1246
Arizona's Tuzigoot National Monument: Ancient Legacy of the Sinagua People 2 left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1271
Fitz John's Folly: An Accident of the Most Thrilling Nature 0 yaesu Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1202
I Saw John Wilkes Booth Shoot Abraham Lincoln. 11 Tomconroy Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 2206
Viking Map of North America Identified as 20th-Century Forgery 3 left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1619
Kenneth B. Morris, Jr : Direct Descendant of Frederick Douglass & Booker T. Washington 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1425
So one of the books I'm reading is "Robert E. Lee and Me, A Southerners Reckoning with the Lost... 2 NNadir Sep 2021 Sep 2021 19 1684
Clara Barton Nursed Ft Wagner Survivors, Smallpox Epidemic, She Was Immune: So. Carolina Civil War 4 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 20 2308
The 10 U.S. National Parks Devoted To Women's History 3 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1529
Massachusetts In The Civil War- Antislavery Activists, Politicians, Nurses, Generals, Repub. Party 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 3 1045
Harriet Tubman, 54th Mass. Reg. Civil War- Union Scout, Spy, Nurse, Cook- Shaw Last Meal, Carney MH 0 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 10 1542
54th Mass. African American Regiment, Battle of Ft. Wagner, S.C. July 18, 1863: GLORY Film 1 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 6 1365
"The North can't afford to have the mouth of the Mississippi in a foreign country." 4 raccoon Sep 2021 Sep 2021 1 1348
Depression 1932, 'Bonus Army' March On DC- Broke WWI Vets Try To Cash War Bonds, Gen Sm. Butler: PBS 6 appalachiablue Sep 2021 Sep 2021 13 1822
Red Summers--How racist propaganda inspired riots in America's biggest cities 1 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1400
In conversation with Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky-1991 1 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 3 1154
The Flapper Story - Roaring '20s Documentary 0 Uncle Joe Aug 2021 Aug 2021 8 1049
Freddy D. vs. TJ - Epic Rap Battles of History 2 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 0 2082
Forget the Alamo censored by the usual suspects! 10 CCExile Jul 2021 Jul 2021 2 3631
Gold Rush Ghost Ships (documentary) 4 Worried2020 Jul 2021 Jul 2021 1 1298
Abraham Lincoln Jumped Out Of A Window To Avoid Quorum 0 appalachiablue Jul 2021 Jul 2021 7 2284
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USS Sable and Wolverine 5 VGNonly Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1948
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American History Continued...

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Judith Heumann's Fight for Disablity Rights, The Section 504 Sit- In: Drunk History 0 appalachiablue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 4 1671
12 Days Not A Slave, SNL: Emancipation Proclamation 0 appalachiablue Jun 2021 Jun 2021 3 1273
Cultures of Resentment Among the Hitlerites & Trumpers 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 4 1796
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Vaccine Skeptics Should Heed George Washington's Example 5 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 10 1751
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Robert Dallek on FDR 0 bucolic_frolic May 2021 May 2021 6 1247
Frederick Douglass vs Thomas Jefferson. Epic Rap Battles of History 0 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 5 1698
Bronze Buckle Shows Ancient Trade Between Eurasia and North America 0 left-of-center2012 May 2021 May 2021 11 1430
Mary Mallon, Cook, Spreads Typhoid Across NYC: Drunk History 4 appalachiablue May 2021 May 2021 2 2052
Greatest Historiacal Accomplishment in the last 150 years?... 5 Stuart G May 2021 May 2021 2 3295
Gianni Russo: J. Edgar Hoover was Gay, Howard Hughes was Bisexual - CIA Killed Him (Part 6) 0 bucolic_frolic May 2021 May 2021 1 1470
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Today is Kent State Day. 4 twodogsbarking May 2021 May 2021 7 1732
"Wounded Knee Massacre" ..Proof we fail to teach about .. genocide of Native Americans. 17 Stuart G May 2021 May 2021 13 3636
Prototype of first US dollar coins going up for auction 0 left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 Apr 2021 7 1675
Lexington and Concord 2 sarisataka Apr 2021 Apr 2021 10 1464
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