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Articles with keyword "history"

Conversation

Women of Influence

 NEH Chairman Bruce Cole talked recently with ABC and NPR news analyst Cokie Roberts about her most recent book, Founding Mothers, and the role women played in the early days of the Republic.

Stuart Parnes

In Focus

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 former vice president of treason and tussles with a Supreme Court justice.

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Virtual St. Louis

A new Web site allows visitors to reconstruct a city's earlier times.

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“Little Sure Shot”: the Saga of Annie Oakley

 A new film describes how a ladylike demeanor and deadeye aim made Phoebe Anne Moses famous.

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

IQ

Impertinent Questions with Susan Heuck Allen

Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece. 

Characters from "Desperate Fishwives"

Curio

Travale's Travails

Educational adventure-game explores Elizabethan Age.