Popular Footnote Pages, 141-160

• Vietnam War

  President Truman’s policy of containment led the United States into the most disliked war of the twentieth century. When North Vietnam invaded South…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 16 Dec 2008 - 119 views this week (7,299 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• American Revolution: Second Battle of Saratoga

  Read about Timothy Murphy, sharpshooter.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 28 Apr 2007 - 119 views this week (3,068 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869

  Native Americans often gave up land for money and services.

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 03 Dec 2008 - 116 views this week (5,021 total)

  Contributions 5 images, 1 comment, 9 stories

• Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

  Original documents by the founding fathers.

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 01 Dec 2008 - 115 views this week (8,455 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 4 stories

• Watergate Scandal & Investigation

  Watergate became the scandal that overshadowed the early seventies and resulted in the first-ever Presidential resignation. Resulting from the…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 10 Dec 2008 - 115 views this week (3,994 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Battle of Little Big Horn

  The Battle of Little Big Horn was a major victory for the Indians during the Great Sioux War. General Custer's 7th Cavalry suffered an embarrassing defeat…

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  Updated 24 Oct 2009 - 114 views this week (3,574 total)

  Contributions 16 images, 2 stories

• The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

  John Wilkes Booth plotted and carried out the assassination of President Lincoln. Originally, the plan was to abduct President Lincoln and take him to…

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  Updated 10 Nov 2008 - 111 views this week (6,993 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 1 story

• 1930 U.S. Census

  Locate information about your family, and perhaps even yourself, if you were born before April 1, 1930.

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 27 Aug 2009 - 108 views this week (4,781 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 comment

• The Navajo Indians

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Created 18 Nov 2009 - 107 views this week (107 total)

  Contributions 4 images

• The Workhouses of England

  In British history, a workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves could go to live and work. The earliest recorded mention…

  by whitedaisy

  Updated 17 Nov 2007 - 107 views this week (3,456 total)

  Contributions 1 story

• Newspapers at Footnote

  National, international, and small-town newspapers bring the news from across the decades, and around the world, to Footnote readers

  by footnote_catalog

  Updated 24 Oct 2008 - 106 views this week (12,858 total)

  Contributions 4 images, 6 stories

• Thomas Jefferson, Writer of the Declaration of Independence

  Read about Thomas Jefferson and his contribution to the independence of our country from Britain.

  by dbreckenridge

  Updated 07 Jun 2007 - 105 views this week (7,700 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 1 story

• Responses to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964.

  by eliz

  Updated 13 Mar 2007 - 105 views this week (4,653 total)

  Contributions 4 images, 7 stories

• Captured German Records in WWII

  These are copies of records which were created by the Gestapo during World War II, captured by the U.S. military, and compiled and used after the war by…

  by footnote_catalog

  Created 22 Oct 2009 - 104 views this week (362 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 4 stories

• Mormon Pioneer Cooking

  Their hardships and struggles of cooking "on the trail".

  by whitedaisy

  Updated 17 Nov 2007 - 104 views this week (6,682 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 1 story

• Born a Slave

  Died Free

  by bgill

  Updated 05 Jun 2009 - 104 views this week (6,839 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 3 comments, 11 stories

• Oskar Schindler

  Oskar Schindler was not a perfect man, but he will be remembered for his selfless service to the Jews he saved during the Nazi Holocaust. Before the war,…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Created 31 Aug 2009 - 103 views this week (790 total)

  Contributions 5 images, 1 story

• James Madison

  The fourth President of the United States of America.

  by jwalgren and others can contribute.

  Updated 03 Feb 2009 - 102 views this week (1,859 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• US Historical Documents

  Footnote.com is the best source for US Historical Documents. The historical period for these US documents covers the 1700's to the present. They…

  by gorgeriverman

  Updated 19 Oct 2009 - 101 views this week (775 total)

  Contributions 44 images, 5 stories

• The Orphan Trains

  For over 75 years, these Orphan Trains rolled along, delivering their precious young riders to new homes. Thousands of children were transfered from the…

  by whitedaisy

  Updated 17 Nov 2007 - 101 views this week (1,841 total)

  Contributions 1 story