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Tag: Travel

Photo of a general view of The Boott Cotton Mill Museum in the former textile manufacturing town of Lowell on the Merrimack River as part of the Lowell National Historical Park and the National Park Service on November 5, 2014 in Lowell, Massachuetts.

Young Women Were America’s First Industrial Workforce

by Carl Zebrowski9/19/20238/1/2023

The massive textile mills of Lowell, Mass., signaled a change for American labor.

Photo of The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The Small Pennsylvania Town Where the US Oil Industry Started

by Heidi Campbell-Shoaf6/13/20236/13/2023
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Can You Spot the Hidden Symbols in DC’s World War II Memorial?

by Barbara Noe Kennedy 4/5/20234/5/2023
Photo of workers at the Louisville Slugger Factory.

Crack! Where Wooden Baseball Bats are Born

by Christopher Howland3/28/20233/28/2023
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During the Golden Age of Air Travel, These Posters Let You Fly Around the World Without Leaving the Ground

by Aviation History Editors3/22/20233/22/2023
Photo of, from left: Author David Goodrich and friends Rick Sullivan and Lynn Salvo, heading north as they bike the Underground Railroad.

After Being Shown a Slave Collar, This Author Was Inspired to Cycle the Underground Railroad

by Melissa A. Winn3/21/20232/17/2023
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Was the Boeing 247 Really Everything It’s Supposed to Be?

by Stephan Wilkinson1/18/20231/18/2023
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The Deadliest Nazi POW Massacre On US Soil Took Place After WWII Ended

by Jessica Wambach Brown1/10/20231/10/2023
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Visit the Training Grounds Where B-17 Crews Learned Their Craft

by Jessica Wambach Brown10/21/202210/21/2022
Moorefield, WV battle site

Moorefield, West Virginia: Confederate Bastion in the Union State

by Melissa A. Winn9/1/20229/6/2022

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