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"The Men Who Built America - Frontiersmen" was infuriatingly bad 5 Freelancer Mar 2018 Mar 2018 5 3075

Ross Perot 9 BlueDog22 Feb 2018 Feb 2018 0 3356

The Bombing of Wall Street, PBS American Experience: Premier Feb. 13 3 appalachiablue Feb 2018 Feb 2018 4 2440

NEW *THE GILDED AGE* PBS American Experience (2018) 1 appalachiablue Feb 2018 Feb 2018 2 2484

American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents 0 elleng Feb 2018 Feb 2018 1 1870

What are the best first person accounts of American fighting in WW2 ? 19 steve2470 Jun 2014 Jan 2018 0 6168

New book by historianStevenJ Ross..Hitler in Los Angeles, 4 irisblue Jan 2018 Jan 2018 4 2244

This message was self-deleted by its author 1 lordsummerisle Dec 2017 Dec 2017 7 1868

When New York City Was a (Literal) Battlefield 1 elleng Nov 2017 Nov 2017 0 2154

Manspread: before and after - Lady Ga Ga and the Live Five 1 Goonch Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 2324

Adams or Jefferson? (Poll) 17 ellisonz Oct 2015 Oct 2017 0 8441

When family history informs us about American History 6 csziggy Mar 2017 Sep 2017 3 2543

Axis of Evil speech Jan 2002 3 irisblue Aug 2017 Sep 2017 0 2718

Science may have solved the 150-year-old mystery of a sunken Civil War submarine 2 Eugene Aug 2017 Aug 2017 9 4080

Joseph McCarthy 8 Blindingly apparent Aug 2017 Aug 2017 0 5622

You may be cool 3 rug Feb 2016 Aug 2017 5 2882

New books centers on "Buffalo Soldiers", runaway slaves recruited in US southwest 2 Rowdyboy Jan 2014 Jul 2017 3 2229

"...Hamiltons project...arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find Whores..." 2 steve2470 Jun 2017 Jul 2017 4 3950

Amelia Earhart mystery: Photo appears taken 2 years before pilot vanished. 2 Cattledog Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 2555

How the East Was Won: A Photographic Portrait 0 elleng Jul 2017 Jul 2017 3 2696

The "second Cold War" and Cold War 2.0 0 Democrats_win Jun 2017 Jun 2017 1 1831

Six Nazi spies were executed in D.C. White supremacists gave them a memorial - on federal land. 1 Eugene Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 2865

Political Correctness? 4 srcameron Jun 2017 Jun 2017 7 4092

Age of living presidents 0 Kaleva Jun 2017 Jun 2017 2 4636

US navy hopes cannon found by divers is from wreck of the USS Revenge 0 Eugene Jun 2017 Jun 2017 4 4976

The US war with Germany officially lasted about 10 years. 4 Kaleva Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 5473

Anyone else think that since 9/11 police and military are automatically considereed "heroes" 5 captain queeg May 2017 May 2017 2 2897

A New Parchment Declaration of Independence Surfaces. Head-Scratching Ensues. 1 elleng Apr 2017 Apr 2017 15 8782

TAFT CAUSES HOTEL DELUGE (caps in original at NY Times) 2 steve2470 Mar 2015 Mar 2017 2 2932

On September 17, 1861, President Lincoln imprisoned one third of the Maryland General Assembly 2 steve2470 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 5 4373

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I wonder how Comrade tRump is going to F*** up Womens History month? 4 samnsara Mar 2017 Mar 2017 4 1967

Was Mary Todd Lincoln Driven ‘Mad’ by a Vitamin Deficiency? 1 elleng Jul 2016 Feb 2017 0 1966

How do you move history? "Battle of Atlanta" cyclorama--fascinating!! 2 niyad Feb 2017 Feb 2017 2 1808

The Many U.S. Presidents Before George Washington. 6 Agnosticsherbet Apr 2016 Jan 2017 1 2879

“Maybe that’s why my vegetables taste funny,” 1 Kali Sep 2016 Dec 2016 5 2209

Just watched the movie "The Patriot," and out of curiosity looked up a British view of 18 GreenPartyVoter Oct 2013 Dec 2016 6 8452

February 25, 1870 First African American Senator 5 Agnosticsherbet Feb 2016 Dec 2016 4 3268

I rarely do this, but I am going to recommend a book... Pls see : 2 dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 Jul 2016 8 2414

{16th-Century Spanish} Santa Elena fort found {on Parris Island, SC} after decades-long search 0 eppur_se_muova Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 1680

This map predicted how Japan would attack the US during World War II 4 steve2470 May 2016 Jul 2016 5 2828

Ralph Lincoln 2 rug Nov 2014 Jul 2016 2 2616

think about it 3 SheriffBob Jul 2016 Jul 2016 2 2238

The Legacy of 1776: A Conversation with William Daniels and Lin-Manuel Miranda 2 elleng Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 3755

The Know-Nothing Party, the 1920s KKK, and elements of the Tea Party: historical parallels? 5 YoungDemCA Aug 2015 Mar 2016 6 4118

Throwback Thursday: Dubuque obscenity debate draws national attention 1 47of74 Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 2310

Unpublished Black History 0 Agnosticsherbet Feb 2016 Feb 2016 4 2988

The U.S. Government Turned Away Thousands of Jewish Refugees, Fearing That They Were Nazi Spies 5 jakeXT Nov 2015 Feb 2016 2 2806

Questions about indentured servants in the Southern colonies 6 YoungDemCA May 2014 Jan 2016 1 4457

Social Security: Summary of Major Changes in the Cash Benefits Program 1 Agnosticsherbet Nov 2015 Nov 2015 2 2519

Why the GOP is ideologically no longer the Party of Lincoln 1 Jnew28 Sep 2015 Oct 2015 0 3026

Blood done sign my name 0 struggle4progress Sep 2015 Sep 2015 1 1785

Lynching in America: A documentary history 0 struggle4progress Sep 2015 Sep 2015 2 1836

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas 0 struggle4progress Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 2322

A Rivalry of Cousins: Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt 4 no_hypocrisy Sep 2014 Aug 2015 3 2633

Presidents wth no living direct descendants 5 Kaleva Aug 2014 Aug 2015 3 7562

July 4th - It's Louis XVI we're celebrating with the tallship HERMIONE... 0 Surya Gayatri Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2396

June 23, 1865: Last Confederate General in the field, Brig. Gen. Stan Watie, a Cherokee, surrenders… 0 Journeyman Jun 2015 Jun 2015 4 3434

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Sherman A1 Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1594

The history of African Americans begins in St Augustine 5 Rowdyboy Jan 2014 May 2015 5 2919

February 9, 1825 "Corrupt Bargain": United States presidential election, 1824 0 steve2470 May 2015 May 2015 1 1821

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"Then there is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant...." 2 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 2319

'She sails like a bird' ! - Replica French frigate to recreate Lafayette's voyage to US 6 Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 4607

Here someone posted a copy of the NY Times from 70 years ago. 0 rgbecker Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1824

Why did the antebellum Northern factory owners not want to have slaves working in their factories? 2 raccoon Jan 2015 Feb 2015 1 9450

WTD... It's a great day to be a Duck 0 WheelWalker Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1682

The Preamble in other languages 1 47of74 Aug 2014 Dec 2014 0 2131

Which former President's crypt was robbed and the body lost to history? 2 Kaleva Nov 2014 Dec 2014 1 2093

The "Strange Fruit" was often female 1 Godot51 Mar 2014 Nov 2014 5 2597

Denver Students Walk Out In Protest Of Conservative Takeover Of Curriculum 1 jakeXT Sep 2014 Nov 2014 3 1863

How an African slave helped Boston fight smallpox 3 MADem Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 2334

Movie censorship is OK: 1915 SCOTUS Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio 1 steve2470 Feb 2014 Oct 2014 1 2482

General Jean Victor Marie Moreau 0 Kaleva Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2389

War of the Regulation (1765-1771 in NC and SC) 1 steve2470 Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2188

80th Anniversary of the SS Morro Castle Disaster 0 Number9Dream Sep 2014 Sep 2014 0 2099

While I'm not exactly wild about the DAR, having noticed an apparent preponderance 7 IrishAyes Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 3277

There is history everywhere. 5 rug Dec 2013 Jul 2014 0 2537

Crowd of nearly 10,000 gathered at civil rights event in Lexington (KY) in 1867 1 theHandpuppet Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1948

Ironic: Republican Horace Greeley may be said to have subsidized Karl Marx's 2 JDPriestly Jun 2014 Jul 2014 2 3918

150 Years of Misunderstanding the Civil War 20 steve2470 Jun 2013 Jun 2014 21 8965

Grant and Sherman made plan at Burnet House that ended Civil War 0 theHandpuppet Jun 2014 Jun 2014 2 2432

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