Articles with keyword "United States"
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A Forgotten Hero in a Forgotten War
Thomas Pearson repelled American forces, driving Canada toward nationhood.
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The Cold War’s Organization Man
How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate U.S. foreign policy.
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Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas
Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.
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Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum
A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca
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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens
Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.
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Revolt of the Masses
From Mass Moments, a website (www.massmoments.org) that is a daily almanac of significant events in the state’s history. It can also be received as a podcast or RSS feed.
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Good Stable Manners
In Ancient Rome and Modern America, NEH-funded scholar Margaret Malamud looks at the ways visions of the imperial city have been incorporated into everything from the Constitution to Caes
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Wild Time in the Poconos
From The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Volume I, May 1832–April 1833, published by the University of Oklahoma Press, 2008, in which the aristocratic naturalist and