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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 5,414 views this week (60,212 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…

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  Updated 20 Nov 2009 - 2,813 views this week (87,245 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 - 2,683 views this week (87,080 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 04 Dec 2008 - 2,674 views this week (84,671 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• 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 - 2,659 views this week (84,888 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 - 2,610 views this week (84,619 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 2 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 - 1,591 views this week (102,558 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 7 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 - 1,555 views this week (57,762 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 7 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 - 1,110 views this week (14,376 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 - 998 views this week (2,052 total)

  Contributions 17 images, 4 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 - 918 views this week (40,006 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 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 - 891 views this week (82,604 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 4 comments, 4 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…

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  Updated 06 May 2009 - 811 views this week (34,080 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Dawes Packets

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

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 24 Oct 2008 - 770 views this week (36,022 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 9 stories

• The Gettysburg Address

  On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremonies of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg,…

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  Updated 09 Nov 2009 - 749 views this week (1,703 total)

  Contributions 5 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 - 732 views this week (45,556 total)

  Contributions 50 images, 3 comments, 9 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 - 688 views this week (41,224 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 10 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 - 634 views this week (44,916 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 04 Dec 2008 - 611 views this week (41,054 total)

  Contributions 29 images, 5 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 24 Aug 2009 - 603 views this week (11,513 total)

  Contributions 47 images, 2 comments, 4 stories