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- Emotions and the Course of History — World War II vs. 9/11
- A Toast to History Buffs
- Energy in America: The History of Sustainable Energy Movements
- What Makes a Modern Suit: A Look at Suits From the 1930s to 2013
- Otto Rohwedder and the Evolution of Sliced Bread
- The 5 Most Overrated Presidents of American History
- Pomeroy’s Tea Room in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: A Memory of the Last Century
- Chinatown’s Sex Slaves – Human Trafficking and San Francisco’s History
- Yellow Journalism – Present and Past
- You Are American If You Go Camping
- 5 Things You Didn’t Know About U.S. Presidents
- Quotes of American History: Marilyn Monroe on Love
- Quotes of American History: William Graham Sumner on Natural Rights
- Florida Historical Society — “Ponce de Leon and Florida’s Fountain of Youth”
- Detroit History — “French Detroit 1701-1760″
- Swedish Colonial Society — “A Brief History of New Sweden in America”
- Dangerous Cures and the Popular Health Movement
- Military History Online — “King Philip’s War”
- The Great Mistake – Why Did the South Secede in 1860?
- Asbestos in America – From World War II to Now
- Slave North — “Slavery in Rhode Island”
- Virginia Places — “Chesapeake Bay Geology”
- Geoworld — “Prehistoric Wyoming”
- Oregon Pioneers — “Northwest Indians”
- Nature Communications — “What Killed the Wooly Mammoth?”
- The AMIQ Institute — “The Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska”
- Quotes of American History: Lafayete on George Washington
- Django Unchained or Django Unhinged? A Critical Perspective
- Lesbian Pulp Fiction — the 1950s Phenomenon
- The Gay Bars and Vice Squads of 1950′s Los Angeles
- The Origins of Whitewater Rafting in the West
- Adoptions in America: Open or Closed?
- Quotes of American History: Huey Long Says “Every Man a King”
- Quotes of American History: Cesar Chavez on Perseverance
- Quotes of American History: Dorothea Dix on the Treatment of the Insane
- Quotes of American History: Yogi Berra on Decisions
- Quotes of American History: Andrew Jackson on Financial Speculators
- Quotes of American History: Edna St. Vincent Millay – “First Fig”
- Quotes of American History: Ulysses S. Grant on Unconditional Surrender
- Ephemera and the Lincoln Park Traps
- The Life of Young Phil Ivey
- Speculation Gone Awry — The Kentucky Relief War of the 1820s
- Two and a Half October Surprises — The Last Days of the 1968 Election
- The Building of the Panama Canal
- The 1933 Banking Crisis — from Detroit’s Collapse to Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday
- Prelude to Social Security — The Rise of the Townsend Plan
- The Trevails of Paul Robeson
- Technocracy — a Depression Panacea
- The Last Patent Medicine — John Pemberton and the start of Coca-Cola
- The Colorado Silver Boom and the American Monetary System
- The Battle of Fort Sullivan
- Are the Causes of Shays’ Rebellion Fairly Portrayed?
- Early Washington and the Logging and Timber Industry
- Al Capone — The Villain of Prohibition?
- Quotes of American History: Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- The Chicago Riots of 1919
- Prelude to a Riot — Irish Athletic Clubs and the Black Belt in 1919
- The “Biddies” — Irish Domestic Servants in Early America
- Explore Southern History — “Miss Lillian Carter was a Southern mother we all loved”
- “Little Havana” — Cuban Culture in Miami since Castro
- After Yorktown: The Integrity of George Washington
- Classic Las Vegas — “They Came to Rob Las Vegas”
- The Jungle of the Plains – Mexican-Americans and the Meatpacking Industry
- Agate Type — “Sprudel Park”
- The First Woman Presidential Candidate – “Notorious Victoria” Woodhull
- A Brief History of America’s Love Affair with Debt
- The Strange Legacy of Aaron Burr
- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt – A History of Credit Cards
- Financial Aid and Student Loans
- L.A. Weekly — “L.A. Riots, Then and Now”
- 5 Reasons You Should Ignore the Presidential Campaign Coverage
- 5 Delightful Tales from the History of San Francisco
- Jack Johnson’s Heavyweight Championship — “The Black Peril” vs. “The Great White Hope”
- WWarII — “Normandy Then & Now”
- The “Cleveland Massacre” — Standard Oil Makes its First Attack
- John D. Rockefeller in the Civil War
- The Dissipated Life of William A. Rockefeller
- Body Horrors — “Blood Money: Hookworm Economics in the Postbellum South”
- The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and its Effects
- The Selvedge Yard — “The Photography of Leroy Grannis”
- Quotes of American History: Daniel Drew on the Perils of Selling Short
- The Virtual Dime Museum — “The Cock of the Walk”
- The Big Con: Jay Gould, a British “Lord”, and a $1 million bribe gone wrong
- 5 Liberal Falsehoods of American History
- Quotes of American History: The Traits of John Adams
- 5 Conservative Falsehoods of American History
- 7 Bizarre Moments in American Sporting History
- Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee Acculturation
- The Cherokee and the Wars of the 18th century
- First Cherokee Contact with the Europeans
- The Cherokee Origins and Traditions
- The Antebellum Home and Woman’s Culture (Part 2)
- The Antebellum Home and Woman’s Culture (Part 1)
- Generals and Physicists: The Manhattan Project
- The Civil War in 1,000 Words
- Two Surprising Innovations that Heralded the Roaring Twenties
- The American Mafia in the Early 20th Century
- The Cold War in 1,000 Words
- Working and Voting — Women in the 1920s
- Bathtub Gin and Lucky Strikes
- “Forty Acres and a Mule” — The Elusive Promise
- The Great (Farm) Depression of the 1920s
- From Slavery to Serfdom — Life for Black People in the “New South”
- They Called Themselves Redeemers — The Rise of White Supremacy
- Education and Religion — The Black Community in Reconstruction
- Before Reconstruction — The South in 1865
