My brothers, remember with me. Remember when we hunted on the lands given to us by the Great Spirit. Remember how we could roam were we would and hunt plentiful deer and other game as we wished.
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One of the most intriguing things about the study of history is what was the average person on the street like? What did they think about the affairs of their times? For most eras of history, these are impossible questions to answer.
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One of the dark facts of the American past has involved the country’s use of slave labor. Viewed by the people of the times as unpleasant, yet necessary, the use of slave labor continued until late in the nineteenth century.
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The American Civil War which was fought from 1861 until 1865 was an event that divided the country like no other.
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The American Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865 was a defining era in this country’s history which was won militarily by the northern states at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead on both sides.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American society was maturing from its agrarian roots into an age of industrialism. The birth pangs which society was experiencing during this transition were especially hard on the lower to middle classes of it citizens.
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Looking back on American history in the twentieth century, perhaps no other event of that century has played as great a role in demonstrating the American character as has the Great Depression. While most people tend to look at the Great Depression as only one economic crash, in …
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As the morning of August 6th, 1945, dawned over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, no one who lived there could suspect that within a matter of hours almost half of its citizens would be dead, and their city would for all practical purposes, cease to exist. At 8:15 A.M., a single A …
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Bass player and songwriter Donald "Duck" Dunn, a member of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame band Booker T. and the MGs and the Blues Brothers band, has died in Tokyo. He was 70.
In a world where we see and hear everything and anything ... it is unfathomable that anyone could insult the intelligence of an entire nation of human beings the way the GOTP does .. with the assistance of the corporate owned, sponsored and managed media of course. The …
President Barack Obama describes the killing of Osama bin Laden as the “most important single day” of his presidency and said that the decision to carry out the raid was one that he had to ultimately make alone. “I did choose the risk,” the president sa …
I chatted with Andrew today. Andrew tends to hold down the corner of 50th and Roosevelt, just a tad west of the University of Washington. Andrew came to the states after things began to go badly in Poland after the heady Solidarity days.
Quick and dirty, folks. Basically, the upper line represents the value of your work. The lower line represents what you got paid for it. The empty space in between—the difference between what your work was worth and how much you got for it—represents the money the …
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