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Buffalo Soldiers standing and sitting, wearing buffalo robes.

Incognito in the Infantry

The story of Cathay Williams, the only known female Buffalo Soldier.

By Anna Maria Gillis

humanities, January/February, 2012, Volume 33, Issue 1
baseball team

Baseball Brotherhood

Wyoming recalls the Hispanic baseball players who made up the Sugar Beet League.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
American Indian delegation at White House

A Nation of Treaties

Minnesota examines the treaties between the United States and American Indians.

By James Williford

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
Poster image of woman holding spear-like fountain pen

Traveling Man

Illinois explores the history of the profession shared by L. Frank Baum, Benedict Arnold, and Johnny Appleseed. 

By Corinne Zeman

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
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Fearless Photographer

Washington celebrates photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.

humanities, November/December, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 6
Seaside farmers plowing

Seashore Farmers

U-boats off the coast of Virginia.

By Emilie Raymer

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Dan Rice as Uncle Sam.

The Circus You Never Knew

The naughty nineteenth-century circus.

By Daniel Noonan

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Richard I. Dodge

Just Deserters

Pennsylvania soldiers dodging the Civil War.

By Corinne Zeman

humanities, January/February, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
<em>Looking Down the Trail</em>

Combat Artist

Vietnam War through the eyes of a South Dakota artist.

By Amy Lifson

humanities, September/October, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 5
Civil War soldiers from Wisconsin

Badger Boys in Blue

Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union.

By Laura Wolff Scanlan

humanities, July/August, 2011, Volume 32, Issue 4