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Old soldiers never die: the improbable life and times of Henry Francisco. Manley, Brendan Brief biography Jan 1, 2010 3191
Mexican War trophy sword. Brief article Dec 1, 2009 178
Making cents. Nov 20, 2009 306
We think about Pilgrim children: Pilgrim children lived long ago. Turn the page to find out more about them. Nov 1, 2009 647
Brant-Brantford commemorates the War of 1812. Nov 1, 2009 185
American All-Stars. Oct 23, 2009 95
Civil War trail plan to lure more US tourists; American officials in Wirral visit. Oct 21, 2009 387
Was the American Civil War really the first World War? Oct 12, 2009 626
Premier Polish patriot: Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a member of Poland's nobility, used his engineering genius on the behalf of both America's and Poland's freedom. Scaliger, Charles Oct 12, 2009 2492
History's most mysterious war. Oct 9, 2009 801
122-Foot Tall Ship Lynx "America's Privateer" to Sail to East Coast of U.S. Next Month for Five-Year Period to Participate in Great Lakes United Tall Ships Event 2010 and War of 1812 and Star-Spangled Banner Bicentennial Events. Oct 8, 2009 632
America & the draft: a 200-year debate: the U.S. has gone back and forth between a volunteer military and conscription. Could the draft be brought back today? Davey, Monica Sep 7, 2009 2604
We dared to lead: how a dismal failure inspired the birth of the U.S. Constitution. Brown, Bryan Sep 7, 2009 1713
Dorothea Lange: eye on America. Sep 7, 2009 521
First shots to mark the e US civil war; Mersyside played a huge part in the war which united America. As the 150th anniversary approaches, Peter Elson reports on the local tourism potential. Aug 12, 2009 1279
City's place in US Civil War; Catherine Jones on how Liverpool could play a central role in America's marking of her darkest hour. Aug 7, 2009 994
War record. Brief article Aug 1, 2009 210
Newly found treasure trove of Ben Franklin's Letters. Aug 1, 2009 827
Southern history as U.S. history. Edwards, Laura F. Aug 1, 2009 15305
The South and the world. Kolchin, Peter Essay Aug 1, 2009 7455
Rethinking the "unthinking decision": old questions and new problems in the history of slavery and race in the colonial South. Goetz, Rebecca Anne Essay Aug 1, 2009 5967
Labor and the idea of race in the American South. Jones, Jacqueline Essay Aug 1, 2009 5852
The bulldozer revolution: suburbs and southern history since World War II. Lassiter, Matthew D.; Kruse, Kevin M. Essay Aug 1, 2009 7847
New people of the newest South: prospects for the post-1980 immigrants. Fink, Leon Report Aug 1, 2009 4819
Contentious and collected: memory's future in southern history. Brundage, W. Fitzhugh Report Aug 1, 2009 6447
Announcements and activities. Brief article Aug 1, 2009 299
Peace pipe shared at Williamsburg. Givens, Ron Brief article Aug 1, 2009 51
Mass grave of luckless Irish found. Givens, Ron Brief article Aug 1, 2009 138
By the numbers. Givens, Ron Brief article Aug 1, 2009 123
Sherman's bad rep. Brief article Aug 1, 2009 38
Laying it on about Sherman. Aug 1, 2009 53
Frontier flashes. Brief article Aug 1, 2009 135
Ordinary patriots, extraordinary sacrifices: American history highlights the greatness of America's Founding Fathers, but a new nation could not have been formed except for the tremendous sacrifice of thousands of everyday Americans. Akers, Becky Jul 6, 2009 2991
"Crete the opening wedge": nationalism and international affairs in Postbellum America. Prior, David Jun 22, 2009 12560
A revealing window on the U.S. economy in depression and war: hours worked, 1929-1950. Higgs, Robert Essay Jun 22, 2009 4097
Divers all set to confirm discovery of 1812 warship in Lake Ontario. Jun 12, 2009 365
Town war memorial to be rededicated. Jun 11, 2009 1182
Spymaster in chief: General George Washington's voluminous correspondence now reveals his no-holds-barred covert operations against the British. Lengel, Edward G. Cover story Jun 1, 2009 3426
The great depression: how a child of immigrants coped with hunger and uncertainty in the 1930s. McCabe, Suzanne May 11, 2009 1398
Remembering the forgotten war. Cover story May 11, 2009 1364
Gotham pity; Bay homers again as Sox go to 5-0 vs. Yanks. May 6, 2009 759
Libraries and archives. Bibliography May 1, 2009 920
Living in post-black America. Jung, Alex May 1, 2009 667
It has been 45 years since Pres. John F. Kennedy was assassinated, yet "historians have pretty much ignored the assassination as a historical event, and they need to weigh in against the excesses of conspiracy theory as false history," urges Michael G. Smith, associate professor of history at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Brief article Apr 1, 2009 101
Can Obama measure up to Lincoln? Apr 1, 2009 467
Mystery women. Mar 9, 2009 539
Abraham Lincoln And The American Dream. Diaz, Hector Pena Mar 1, 2009 1637
Conservatism's hollow defeat: the intellectual right, now in the wilderness, keeps deluding itself about supposed past glories. Doherty, Brian Mar 1, 2009 2795
Tennessee sheriff uses web site to peddle 'Christian nation' view. Mar 1, 2009 427
From the Office of Innovation and Improvement. Brief article Feb 27, 2009 81
American history. Brief article Feb 27, 2009 228
Wise words. Feb 13, 2009 844
Old and right. Rothbard, Murray Feb 9, 2009 519
A Rhapsode and a question mark: the Obama inauguration, placed in history. Brookhiser, Richard Feb 9, 2009 1653
In search of lost principle: the Republicans could benefit from rereading their two-page masterpiece. Cavanaugh, Tim Feb 1, 2009 1134
Indebtedness and the origins of guerrilla violence in Civil War Missouri. Geiger, Mark W. Essay Feb 1, 2009 17416
Rewriting history. Jan 27, 2009 244
Sugar Islands. Broookhiser, Richard Travel narrative Jan 26, 2009 994
A revolutionary recession: did a sour economy set off the American war for independence? Arango, Tim Jan 12, 2009 726
We forget that Lincoln opposed a war, too. Jan 7, 2009 793
A sledgehammer of a word. Reed, Lori Jan 1, 2009 1285
Lessons from the great inflation: Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan's forgotten miracle created a quarter century of prosperity--and a dangerous bubble of complacency. Samuelson, Robert J. Jan 1, 2009 3471
Fifty years of Alaska. Brief article Jan 1, 2009 46
Myths and truths: the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans on the Southern Tier of upstate New York. Banner-Haley, Charles "Pete" Essay Jan 1, 2009 3647
Progressive pedagogy in the U.S. History survey. Vickery, Peter Report Dec 22, 2008 3721
Longing to "belong": foster children in Mid-Century Philadelphia (1946-1963). Curran, Laura Essay Dec 22, 2008 10924
Our deflated future? Probably not. Gordon, John Steele Cover story Dec 15, 2008 1429
Sackets Harbor Brewing Company's "War of 1812 Amber Ale" Now Bottled at High Falls Brewing Company. Dec 8, 2008 746
Casting more than your vote: the Hatch Act and political involvement for law enforcement personnel. Bulzomi, Michael J. Dec 1, 2008 4338
Back to the barricades: free markets are under attack again. Welch, Matt Dec 1, 2008 1282
Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Government has grown, but freedom has grown faster. de Rugy, Veronique Column Dec 1, 2008 1249
The libertarian moment: despite all leading indicators to the contrary, America is poised to enter a new age of freedom. Gillespie, Nick; Welch, Matt Dec 1, 2008 3824
American history. Brief article Nov 20, 2008 54
Introducing the 44th President of the United States: Barack Obama! Cover story Nov 17, 2008 1469
U.S. Slave Trade. Brief article Nov 10, 2008 223
Thomas Jefferson, coercion, and the limits of harmonious union. Steele, Brian Report Nov 1, 2008 17352
Supply line warfare. Welborn, Cliff Nov 1, 2008 2249
Photo analysis. Brief article Oct 20, 2008 83
Goodbye Gordon Gekko: the Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people's wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another. Buchanan, Patrick J. Oct 6, 2008 766
Charming the Voters. Sep 29, 2008 510
"A kiss for mother, a hug for dad": the early 20th century Parents' Day campaign. LaRossa, Ralph; Carboy, Jaimie Ann Report Sep 22, 2008 9642
Saint John 225: the 2008 Dominion Conference of the UELAC. Bolton, Stephen Sep 22, 2008 2381
Toronto. Windover, Karen Brief article Sep 22, 2008 235
Capital in Flames, The American Attack on York, 1813. Johnson, Peter W. Book review Sep 22, 2008 1046
Son of liberty: Nathan Hale, a true patriot, believed that liberty is worth any price. Akers, Becky Sep 15, 2008 2947
It's not just the executive. Uhlmann, Michael M. Sep 15, 2008 1511
The harp and stripes ; Irish-Americans: General Thomas Meagher and the Irish Brigade at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Sep 5, 2008 1130
Canada: History plays a role in Niagara-on-the-Lake development. Sep 1, 2008 661
Our country: Americans remember an important part of history. Sep 1, 2008 592
These colors run: at the 1908 London Olympics, the Irish American Athletic Club brought home gold for the red, white, and blue. McGrath, Roger D. Jul 28, 2008 3155
Sackets Harbor Brewing Company Makes it to Daytona International Speedway. Jul 8, 2008 529
That significant, sensational signing: the signers of the Declaration of Independence knew that they might pay a price--yet they signed anyway. Over time, their sacrifices may have been exaggerated, but their true stories are fascinating enough without embellishment. Akers, Becky Jul 7, 2008 3090
The Baraboo Guards: a Novel of the American Civil War. Larsen, Richard N. Brief article Jul 1, 2008 298
George Washington's Spiritual Journey. Connell, Janice T. Jul 1, 2008 3084
Independence I.Q. Moran, Margaret C. Brief article Jul 1, 2008 275
"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure": Northern civilian perspectives on death and eternity during the Civil War. Scott, Sean A. Essay Jun 22, 2008 13950
Sean A. Scott, " 'Earth has no sorrow that Heaven Cannot Cure' Northern Civilian Perspectives on Death and Eternity During the Civil War". Brief article Jun 22, 2008 184
Remembering an extraordinary scholar and public intellectual: Jim Zwick. Fishkin, Shelley Fisher In memoriam Apr 1, 2008 2694
The American Civil War of 1861-1865: a major challenge to the survival of early Baptists ventures in Nigeria. Ajayi, S. Ademola Essay Mar 22, 2008 4017
Provost Marshal duties during the Spanish-American war era. Garland, Patrick V. Mar 22, 2008 1437

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