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History Times: A Nation of Immigrants
Coming to the Land of Opportunity
Throughout American history, millions of people around the world have left their homelands for a...
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Avast! How the US Built a Navy, Sent in the Marines, and Faced Down the Barbary Pirates
In October 1784, an American merchant vessel, the Betsey, was on a trade run from her home port of Boston to Tenerife in the Canary Islands when she was approached by an un-flagged vessel. Suddenly, “...
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Abraham Lincoln, Inventor, 1846
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Letter from Christopher Columbus: A Common Core Unit
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