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The First: Book Printed in America

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Salem Witch House

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First Encounter

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Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs

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The Curse of Cromwell

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George Washington: America’s Atlas

We stand on the shoulders of a giant

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King William’s War: New England’s Mournful Decade

America's vicious border conflict with New France in the 1690s

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Genius Rebel Separates Church & State

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Plato, Greek philosopher.

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Philip II, king of Spain and Portugal.

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Henri Rousseau, French painter.

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Grace Hoadley Dodge, philanthropist, helped organize the YWCA.

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Willem Einthoven, physiologist, inventor of the electrocardiogram.

1867

Frances Densmore, ethnomusicologist.

1878

Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer.

1898

Armand Hammer, American entrepreneur and industrialist.

1902

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1909

Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist.

1917

Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason).

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Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist.

1926

Robert Creeley, poet.

1944

Mary Bourke Robinson, first woman president of Ireland (1990-1997).

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Taking a King’s Crown

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War Story: A GI recalls his D-Day Experience at Omaha Beach

In an essay written soon after the war, a GI recalls his D+1 at Omaha Beach and after

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How These Elite Civil War Marksmen Changed the Face of Warfare

Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory

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Hallowed Ground | Corfe Castle, England

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The First: Cash Crop

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Taking a King’s Crown

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Book Review: To Catch a King

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Military History Book Review: The Thirty Years’ War

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Relics of an Illusory Past

1600s

The First: Book Printed in America

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Salem Witch House

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Why Was Life So Hard for the Pilgrims?

1600s

First Encounter

1600s

A True Warrior-King: Gustavus II Adolphus

1600s

Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs

1600s

The Curse of Cromwell

1600s

George Washington: America’s Atlas

1600s

King William’s War: New England’s Mournful Decade

1600s

Genius Rebel Separates Church & State

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Daniel Guiet: A Father’s Secret War

1600s

Taking a King’s Crown

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War Story: A GI recalls his D-Day Experience at Omaha Beach

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