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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 2,699 views this week (116,149 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 - 2,268 views this week (120,053 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 - 2,149 views this week (118,378 total)

  Contributions 24 images, 3 comments, 3 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 01 Jan 2010 - 2,130 views this week (115,856 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 - 2,122 views this week (116,017 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 - 2,108 views this week (115,809 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 2 stories

• 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 - 1,907 views this week (91,357 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 4 comments, 4 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 - 1,640 views this week (80,186 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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  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 1,589 views this week (16,859 total)

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• 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 - 1,235 views this week (48,415 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 - 1,152 views this week (50,184 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…

  by llighthse

  Updated 01 Mar 2010 - 1,139 views this week (59,806 total)

  Contributions 50 images, 3 comments, 11 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 28 Nov 2009 - 1,118 views this week (24,441 total)

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• what does my last name mean?

  Gann

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  Updated 12 Jan 2010 - 1,109 views this week (9,664 total)

• 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 - 936 views this week (52,526 total)

  Contributions 29 images, 6 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 - 929 views this week (50,742 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 7 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 - 881 views this week (56,781 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 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 - 855 views this week (49,037 total)

  Contributions 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 21 Jan 2010 - 822 views this week (41,582 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 4 comments, 28 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 - 821 views this week (36,573 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 25 stories