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The doughboys numbered only 550 men -- the remnants of four battalions -- and were surrounded by Germans. Then they were given the order to attack. Read >>
to Joseph P. Lash for Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West Read >>
“Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men …I would have the word ‘obey’ used no more by the wife than by the husband.” Read >>
The hour-by-hour suspenseful story of the climactic struggle for equal voting rights for women Read >>
The Woman’s Anti-Suffrage Movement Read >>
A View From the Other Side of Arnold Genthe’s Camera Read >>
A newly discovered Union diary shows that Sherman’s march was about as Ruthless as Southerners have always said it was Read >>
Too many of our wonderful historic ships have been lost, but funds recently appropriated by Congress will help to see a major part of our history belayed—tied down, secure. Read >>
“Surveyor, mountain man, soldier, businessman, wanderer, captain of emigrants, farmer…he was himself the westward-moving frontier.” Read >>
St. Paul Celebrates the Pleasures of Winter Read >>
Being out of work in the old days usually brought shame and humiliation. How—and why—have we changed our feelings about unemployment? Read >>
A writer’s poignant memoir of a people whom he had been taught to fear and learned to love in a time of trouble Read >>
A childhood reminiscence of Concord, that special Massachusetts town where the Transcendentalists chose to live their rarefied lives Read >>
Organizers held an old-fashioned cattle drive to commemorate the cowboy's role in winning the West, but, as they say, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Read >>

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