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Jul 5 2012

Discover the ramifications of the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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Jul 2 2012

What were the origins of this infamous controversy?

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Jun 25 2012

American is built upon immigration. However, attitudes about immigration [...] »

Jun 25 2012

Historians often consider Puritan New England a model for the development of [...] »

May 30 2012

Why did Little Wolf, a Cheyenne leader, go to Washington in 1873?

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Apr 20 2012

Slavery in colonial America was not an exclusively Southern institution.

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Apr 13 2012

Discover the motivations fueling the 19th-century temperance movement.

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Mar 26 2012

Why did some colonies in the New World succeed while others faded away?

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Mar 19 2012

Discover how the concept of a "Manifest Destiny" shaped American perceptions [...] »

Mar 9 2012

Why is colonial written English so different from the version we use today [...] »