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Why are Americans so bad at studying history? 29 ellisonz Apr 2012 Jun 2012 0 10386
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This week in the American Civil War (June 1862-150 years ago) 0 Rowdyboy Jun 2012 Jun 2012 0 1840
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MSNBC has more on Amelia Earhart and radio signals.... 1 Rowdyboy Jun 2012 Jun 2012 0 2087
"Earharts Anti-Freckle Cream Jar Possibly Found" 8 Rowdyboy Jun 2012 Jun 2012 22 4898
A Little Trouble in Big China 1 ellisonz May 2012 May 2012 0 1880
May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Ed is decided 0 Sherman A1 May 2012 May 2012 0 1936
How Mormon History has Shaped Mitt Romney 1 ellisonz May 2012 May 2012 0 2104
Roanoke Colony Revealed? Prof Finds The Mysterious Colony's Capital. 1 elleng May 2012 May 2012 2 2621
North Carolina, British researchers find clue to location of Lost Colony. 0 Adsos Letter May 2012 May 2012 1 2000
Award Winners at the 2012 OAH/NCPH Meeting (Looking for Good Reads?) 1 ellisonz Apr 2012 May 2012 1 2105
Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline 4 ellisonz Apr 2012 Apr 2012 0 3000
Well, I'm reading "1491" by Charles Mann 10 canoeist52 Dec 2011 Apr 2012 1 3492
Explorers group discovers name of Lake Michigan shipwreck - w/video 0 Bozita Apr 2012 Apr 2012 2 2054
Who are your top five American Presidents? 22 ellisonz Feb 2012 Apr 2012 0 5782
Finley Peter Dunne - Great American Humorist or Greatest American Humorist? 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2882
This is the Historic story of the only known black man on the Titanic... 0 Rowdyboy Apr 2012 Apr 2012 2 1608
Search for Amelia Earhart Starts Again 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2786
New Look at an Old Memo Casts More Doubt on Rehnquist 4 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 1 2518
U.S. Holocaust Museum refutes FDR supporters' defense of failure to bomb Auschwitz 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Apr 2012 0 2523
Brooklyn hunts for spirit of 1776 soldiers 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2481
Professional Boredom 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1646
Eric Foner: Rooted in Reconstruction ... The First Wave of Black Congressmen 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1750
Census documenting Great Depression to be released 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 1736

American History Continued...

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As World War One centennial nears, fight erupts over memorial 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 3045
America's history: Interior department tries to better tell history of all Americans 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1466
Researching General Ethan Allen 2 flamingdem Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 1905
The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2520
Please Keep Your Government Hands On My University 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1753
British spies stumped by Charlie Chaplin mystery 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2298
"Red Tails": The Tuskegee Airmen Deserved a Movie That's Not Completely Unwatchable 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1933
The Lincoln-Douglas debates weren’t as great as Gingrich thinks 2 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2116
I am reading James Bradley's-"The Imperial Cruise"- 4 digonswine Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 3444
A Mexican Immigrant’s Act of Honor 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1669
Lookie what we found in our old house 14 47of74 Jan 2012 Feb 2012 15 7623
Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north Queensland 1 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 2128
W.Va. coal group wants Blair Mountain case tossed 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1587
Black History Month: Debunking the 10 biggest myths about black history 5 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 4053
Urban Renewal’s Record Shows It Wasn’t All Bad 0 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1474
Monument for black Revolutionary War patriots readied for Senate consideration 2 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2191
Robert Higgs: Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism? 16 ellisonz Dec 2011 Feb 2012 1 5019
Alabama's last known real daughter of the Confederacy buried in Cullman (al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 Feb 2012 1 1835
In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 1998
150 years later, Dakota war wounds still cut deep 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1637
Chilling tape from Air Force One on day JFK shot 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1730
Another trivia question 24 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 4379
LAT: Huntington acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 3 2534
1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2813
Full time, tenure track position for a History teacher at Napa Valley College 1 Adsos Letter Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2081
Tapes: JFK Saw DC Disconnect 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1297
Here's a trivia question 16 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3334
Former President John Tyler’s (1790-1862) grandchildren still alive 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1958
Okay Historians, Summarize Newt Gingrich in Four Words 1 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2028
This Land is Our Land: The Popular Front and American Culture 1 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1580

American History Continued...

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Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1749
Texas crews excavate bones of purported ex-slaves 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1832
66 Years After He Saved a Navy Ship, Another Battle Is Won 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1740
Washington Monument gets $7.5M for repairs 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1670
Ron Paul invokes the ... Millard Fillmore doctrine? 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1887
Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary take on the Bible reissued 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1913
Ok I read "Killing Lincoln" by O'Reilly and I have a question. 3 yellowcanine Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 3087
Debunking neo-confederate revisionist propaganda 3 TigerToMany Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 4078
Michael H. Hunt: How Beijing Sees Us 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2642
Anyone planning on going to any of the Civil War 150th Anniversary events? 3 charlie and algernon Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2312
Gorbachev: Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? 9 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 1 4119
Favorite documentaries? 19 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Jan 2012 0 6567
Strange But True: Ron Paul Thinks The American Civil War Was 'Unnecessary' 12 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 5612
Passions for the past — and jobs — come alive at history convention 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1695
The 7th Annual Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1800
Candidates Show Fondness for World War II References 6 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3180
Woody Guthrie: Bound for Local Glory at Last 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2230
A 1969 plan to build a second, nuke-proof Manhattan below New York City 1 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2629
Civil War Sesquicentennial 10 melonkali Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3528
Twain ripped 4 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2941
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