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Does the ‘shot heard ’round the world’ still echo 250 years later?
But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...
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‘Where Shall We Find Such Devoted Patriotism Now?’ Recalling Samuel Whittemore’s Courage 250 Years After Lexington and Concord
Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. As battles go, they didn’t amount to ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Dive Into the Deeper Story of the American Revolution on How New England and Virginia United Against the British
Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Ulysses S. Grant Launched an Illegal War Against the Plains Indians, Then Lied About It
The commission sent word back to Washington ... dissenting voice was George W. Manypenny, a reform-minded former Indian Bureau commissioner. He surmised that “the Sioux War of 1876, the crime ...