Have you ever stopped to think about how the United States became a manufacturing nation? Have you ever wondered how the United States...
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Is there anything more we can know about well-researched and reported events like the Boston Massacre? Are there new ways of looking at oft...
When we think of important years in the history of the American Revolution, we might think of years like 1765 and the Stamp Act Crisis...
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What was everyday life like for those who lived in early America? To get at the everyday lives of early Americans we need to look at the...
The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land...
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Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire. Although the revolt...
We live in an age where big businesses track our shopping habits and in some cases our work habits. But is the age of data new? When did...