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Articles with keyword "history"

Stuart Parnes

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Connecticut's Stuart Parnes

Parnes takes up the cause of of the humanities in Connecticut.

Rowhouse in Chestertown

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Majoring in History

A visit to Chestertown, Maryland.

Portrait of Aaron Burr in 1802

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Burr versus Jefferson versus Marshall

The president accuses his fomer vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice.

Captain John Smith by Simon de Passe, seventeenth century

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Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown

Smith's experiences as a pirate, mercenary, and Turkish slave prepare him to survive in the New World.

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Firsthand Accounts

A Web site offers manuscripts, maps, and sketches from early Virginia.

Susan Heuck Allen

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Impertinent Questions with Susan Heuck Allen

Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece. 

Characters from "Desperate Fishwives"

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Travale's Travails

Educational adventure-game explores Elizabethan Age.

Drawing of Jennison's Jayhawkers

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Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers

Kansans relive the guerrilla raids of the Border Wars.

National History Day

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Historians in Training

Students from around the globe show their mettle at National History Day. 

Pickup football game among "breaker boys."

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Penn's Woods Online

Keeping tabs on the Commonwealth's uncommon history.