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The Thirteen Colonies

The thirteen colonies that joined together to become the United States of America were but a part of the first British Empire. They were the product...

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Women and the Music Industry in the 1970s

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Detail from a Harper’s Weekly cartoon by Thomas Nast, February 26, 1870. (LOC)

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Education Reform in Antebellum America

Education reform is often at the heart of all great reform struggles.[1]

By the 1820s Americans were...

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Indian Removal

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September 11, 2001

“9/11” has emerged as shorthand for the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United...

Cornelius Vanderbilt, ca. 1865. (GLC05151)

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Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?

On February 9, 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, said something strange about Cornelius Vanderbilt. Raymond...

Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836. (GLC08642)

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Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters

Angelina Grimke and her sister Sarah Grimke were legends in their own lifetimes. Together these South Carolina sisters made history: daring to speak before “promiscuous” or mixed crowds of men and women,...

Destruction of the statue of George III in New York, 1776. (GLC)

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The Invention of the Fourth of July

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Lincoln at Cooper Union

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Native American Discoveries of Europe

Native Americans discovered Europe at the same time Europeans discovered America. As far as we know, no birch bark canoes caught the gulf stream to...