Articles with keyword "North America"
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Comanche Robe
This painted Comanche hide, which dates from the mid nineteenth century, served as a robe for a child.
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Black Walden
The neighborhood where Henry David Thoreau took shelter was home to Concord's "abandoned" slaves.
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The United States of Mestizo
A term of conquest and miscegenation now describes a cosmopolitan identity and worldview.
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Our Founding Novelist
Charles Brockden Brown mixed spontaneous combustion with Gothic horror.
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University of Denver Archaeological Collections
Fashioned from yucca fibers, the sandal pictured here was probably worn over five thousand years ago and is one of the oldest artifacts found at Franktown Cave in southern Colorado.