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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 4,402 views this week (62,344 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 - 2,667 views this week (88,478 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 04 Dec 2008 - 2,534 views this week (85,850 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 - 2,523 views this week (86,079 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 - 2,520 views this week (88,262 total)

  Contributions 24 images, 3 comments, 3 stories

• 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 - 2,508 views this week (85,815 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 2 stories

• 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 - 1,155 views this week (58,214 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 7 stories

• The Cherokee Indians

  The Cherokee Indians are the largest Native American group in the United States today. This tribe has a unique history, culture and religion that began…

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  Updated 22 Nov 2009 - 1,086 views this week (1,157 total)

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• My Personal War as a POW by Richard Klema

  My life as a POW in Stalag III-A, III-B and VII-A

  by sndye459

  Updated 17 Aug 2009 - 1,044 views this week (2,127 total)

  Contributions 17 images, 4 comments, 1 story

• 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 - 1,013 views this week (14,695 total)

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• 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 - 971 views this week (40,299 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 stories

• WWII Missing Air Crew Reports

  Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) of the US Army Air Forces, 1942-1947, M1380

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 829 views this week (102,645 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 7 stories

• U.S. President John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  Ask any American who was alive on November 22, 1963, what they remember of the day President Kennedy was shot and they’ll have a story to tell. It was…

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  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 700 views this week (11,909 total)

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• 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 - 691 views this week (99,517 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• 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 - 602 views this week (26,654 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 25 stories

• Battle of Gettysburg

  Union and Confederate soldiers fought for three days on the bloody fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While the Union could call this battle a victory,…

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  Updated 20 Nov 2009 - 596 views this week (11,741 total)

  Contributions 47 images, 2 comments, 4 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 20 Mar 2009 - 579 views this week (33,888 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 3 comments, 28 stories

• Amendments to the US Constitution

  Ratified Amendments XI-XXVII of the United States Constitution, M1518

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 01 Dec 2008 - 576 views this week (16,722 total)

  Contributions 18 images, 6 stories

• The Pennsylvania Archives

  If you're interested in Pennsylvania history and want information relating to historical events, facts about ancestors, or original documents to support a…

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  Updated 02 Jun 2009 - 462 views this week (97,355 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 10 comments, 8 stories

• 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 - 442 views this week (36,168 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 9 stories