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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 3,151 views this week (117,590 total)

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• FDR's New Deal for America

  Soon after he was inaugurated in March 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt began a “New Deal” for America. With the assistance of Congress, he hoped to…

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  Updated 20 Nov 2009 - 2,393 views this week (121,056 total)

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• Unknown location in Germany 1945

  Need help indentifying photos my dad took while in Germany. I know this is a long shot!

  by maligh

  Updated 11 Oct 2009 - 2,243 views this week (119,308 total)

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• Mervyn Sharp Bennion

  Mervyn Sharp Bennion served in the United States Navy and was the Captain of the U.S.S. Virginia at Pearl Harbor. He was serving aboard his ship on the…

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  Updated 01 Jan 2010 - 2,208 views this week (116,773 total)

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• HANDIBOE or HANDEBO'S originally from IRELAND.

  The original HANDEBO'S of Australia, among the first to begin Australia's "penal colony", which was designed by the United Kingdom's wealth to begin and…

  by llighthse

  Updated 22 Aug 2008 - 2,198 views this week (116,931 total)

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• Barbed Wire Killed More Men Than Water Wars

  Bert Bennett of American Fork, Utah collected hundreds of varieties of barbed wire from all over the west. He often related the stories of battles…

  by ldrew

  Updated 02 Jan 2009 - 2,197 views this week (116,725 total)

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• Mary Frances EMMERSON-LEWIS b. Portsmouth, VA, abt 1837.

  This is the only wife of John H. (HENRY) LEWIS, also, born in Portsmouth, VA. John was born 1835.

  by llighthse

  Updated 17 Oct 2009 - 1,992 views this week (81,162 total)

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• R.M.S.Titanic Sinks

  Dubbed “unsinkable” before she even set sail, the White Star Line’s R.M.S. Titanic was heralded as the greatest ship of its time, exceeding…

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• what does my last name mean?

  Gann

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  Updated 12 Jan 2010 - 1,372 views this week (10,306 total)

• The Homestead Act, 1862

  The Homestead Act of 1862 was the culmination of decades of work to organize and distribute government lands. Every 160-acre parcel largely went to new…

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  Updated 10 Mar 2010 - 1,343 views this week (49,019 total)

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• The Cherokee Trail of Tears

  The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838 the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to…

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  Updated 14 Mar 2010 - 1,334 views this week (24,964 total)

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• Joseph Irvin LEWIS, born Washington DC, dec'd Washington DC, timeline and some info.

  Joseph's father helped to build a large area in Washington DC. Part of that area, is today known as Florida Ave., Washington DC. I think Joseph…

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  Updated 01 Mar 2010 - 1,293 views this week (60,400 total)

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• Dawes Packets

  Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914, NARA M1301

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  Updated 24 Oct 2008 - 1,276 views this week (50,750 total)

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• Jack London's "A Good Soldier"

  Jack London wrote a tract called "A Good Soldier" in response to World War 1. The Bureau of Investigations though it contraversial enough to keep it on…

  by sjackman

  Updated 22 Feb 2007 - 1,057 views this week (91,371 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 4 comments, 4 stories

• The Spithead & Nore Mutiny

  Discontent among sailors at the Nore, a Royal Navy anchorage in the Thames Estuary, overflowed in riotous mutiny in May 1797. Spithead sailors win better…

  by bgill

  Updated 01 Aug 2007 - 1,049 views this week (51,220 total)

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• Confederate African Americans~Civil War

  Page Two~Black Confederate Participation "...And after the battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, ...reported among the rebel prisoners were seven blacks in…

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Aug 2007 - 1,022 views this week (57,265 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 7 stories

• A Hard Row To Hoe

  My memories of stories that mother told me about her family . The hardships they encountered.

  by Charlene530

  Updated 20 Jan 2010 - 1,012 views this week (52,969 total)

  Contributions 29 images, 6 stories

• FEMALE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS & SPIES

  Like most historic battles, the U.S. Civil War had its spies--men and women--on both sides. It was a hazardous occupation with few rewards.

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 955 views this week (41,956 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 4 comments, 28 stories

• Remembrance in Spacetime

  Having given life to their lucky child, my parents embarked on a long journey. Life and near-death experiences on three continents, and on the North…

  by hl98

  Updated 29 Jun 2007 - 922 views this week (49,442 total)

  Contributions 4 stories

• Underground Railroad

  You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich.…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 895 views this week (73,089 total)

  Contributions 44 images, 4 comments, 46 stories