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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 6,370 views this week (52,319 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• 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…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 19 Oct 2009 - 3,225 views this week (82,887 total)

  Contributions 18 images, 5 comments, 2 stories

• 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 - 3,146 views this week (82,916 total)

  Contributions 24 images, 3 comments, 3 stories

• 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 - 3,129 views this week (80,751 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• 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 - 3,118 views this week (80,523 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 2 stories

• 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 04 Dec 2008 - 3,115 views this week (80,514 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 - 2,436 views this week (55,324 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 7 stories

• 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…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 06 May 2009 - 1,695 views this week (32,825 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• 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…

  by llighthse

  Updated 24 Oct 2009 - 1,592 views this week (44,421 total)

  Contributions 50 images, 3 comments, 9 stories

• Dawes Packets

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

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 24 Oct 2008 - 1,537 views this week (34,830 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 9 stories

• 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 - 1,403 views this week (43,912 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 7 stories

• A Polar Bear in North Russia

  This series of posts highlights my paternal great-grandfather's service in the American North Russian Expeditionary Forces at the end of World War I.

  by kidmiff

  Updated 14 Oct 2009 - 1,355 views this week (40,152 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 10 stories

• A Hard Row To Hoe

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

  by Charlene530

  Updated 04 Dec 2008 - 1,314 views this week (40,109 total)

  Contributions 29 images, 5 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 - 1,295 views this week (38,450 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 7 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 - 1,264 views this week (37,115 total)

  Contributions 4 stories

• The 'Guest' Letter

  I am searching for the letter that was handed out to troops enroute to Wespac circa 1968.

  by GuenotGR

  Updated 02 Apr 2008 - 1,127 views this week (98,059 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• 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 - 1,038 views this week (81,506 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 4 comments, 4 stories

• 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 25 Sep 2009 - 668 views this week (12,805 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• African American Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  In 1775, the citizens of the Massachusetts colony were setting course for a war that would decide the fate of a nation. ~Page One

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jul 2007 - 654 views this week (38,752 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 stories

• Slave Rebellion

  Slave owners lived in fear of slave revolts, a fear which was far from unfounded: from the Amistad mutiny to the Underground Railroad, American slaves led…

  by bgill

  Updated 11 Jul 2007 - 589 views this week (25,481 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 25 stories