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Video: Citizenship Exam

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s

Government and Civics

Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s. Explained by Chad Williams Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University Question 78

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Livestream Registration for The Global Legacies of World War II

Livestream: The Global Legacies of World War II Veterans Legacy Program Program Dates : July 15–18, 2024 Location : Online (Broadcast from USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California) Cost : Free Monday, July 15, 2024 Michael S...

History Now Essay

Fighting against the Odds: Black Soldiers in the Second World War

John H. Morrow, Jr.

John H. Morrow, Jr. , is Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He taught for seventeen years at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where, in 1971, he became the first African American faculty member in the...

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57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

46 | African American Soldiers Fall 2016

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A Civil War soldier’s letters: "Save them if it cost the farm"

George Tillotson from Greene, New York, enlisted with the 89th New York Infantry in November of 1861. This ambrotype (photograph made on glass) and a series of letters from the summer of 1862 remind us that soldiers and their families...

History Now Essay

The Diary of Ella Jane Osborn, World War I US Army Nurse

Susan F. Saidenberg

World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The unpublished diary of Ella Jane Osborn (1881–1966) in the Gilder Lehrman Collection opens an extraordinary window into the daily experiences of one American woman stationed in a US Army hospital in a dangerous and contested battle...

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43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015

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The World War II experience of Robert L. Stone, 1942–1945

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Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific during World War II. Born on December 19, 1921 in New York City, Bob was a nineteen-year-old...

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1862-1893

Civil War - Medal of Honor winners, Union Generals [Decimalized .01-.04.02]

Five documents from Civil War General who received the Medal of Honor.

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The Cold War Moves to the Kitchen: On This Day, 1959

On July 24, 1959, at the height of the Cold War , Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon held a "Kitchen Debate." Since the end of WWII, the Soviet Union and United States had been locked in a fierce battle...

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Women and Wagoners: Camp Followers in the American War for Independence

Holly A. Mayer

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An old tune called "The Girl I Left Behind Me" tells of a lovelorn soldier yearning to return home to his waiting fair maid. Although there is a good chance that this song was fifed during the Revolutionary War, the earliest...

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21 | The American Revolution Fall 2009

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Printed document signed

1813/03/31

Clark, Joseph W., fl. 1813

Regulations which all Prisoners of War on Parole are bound to observe.

Signed by Clark, master of an American merchant vessel, imprisoned during the War of 1812 and countersigned by Thomas Gribble as agent for prisoners of war on parole at Ashburton, England. Outlines the rules Clark must follow and the freedoms he...

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