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• Continental Congress: Hospital Reports

  Medical treatement during the Revolutionary War.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 03 May 2007 - 4,443 views this week (61,536 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 - 2,568 views this week (88,063 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 - 2,454 views this week (85,466 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 - 2,443 views this week (85,693 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• 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 - 2,437 views this week (87,872 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 - 2,404 views this week (85,422 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 - 1,194 views this week (58,033 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 7 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 - 1,112 views this week (102,616 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 7 stories

• 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 (2,080 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 - 965 views this week (14,539 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• 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 - 953 views this week (1,022 total)

  Contributions 23 images

• 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 - 864 views this week (40,132 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 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 - 577 views this week (99,325 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• 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 - 558 views this week (11,734 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• 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 - 545 views this week (11,635 total)

  Contributions 47 images, 2 comments, 4 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 - 541 views this week (26,539 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 25 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 - 512 views this week (33,772 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 - 509 views this week (16,620 total)

  Contributions 18 images, 6 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 - 491 views this week (36,098 total)

  Contributions 10 images, 9 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 - 481 views this week (34,109 total)

  Contributions 12 images, 1 comment, 1 story