With bloody conflicts in so many hot spots around the world, we should remember that the erasures of civilizations are not mere memories from a distant past.
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Michael Corcoran led New York’s Irish brigade to glory in the Civil War after being disciplined for refusing to parade in honor of Britain's Prince of Wales.
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Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
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At the height of World War II, volunteer pilots with the Civil Air Patrol flew tens of thousands of missions while patrolling America's coastline for Nazi U-boats.
Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
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What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
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Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
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