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Playing the game of alternative history—do what-ifs and if-onlys have a [...] »
A struggle over naming a struggle—when and where did the Boston Massacre [...] »
In Flanders fields the poppies blow. . . Why did trench warfare characterize [...] »
Spain pursuing its own goals against Great Britain.
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On the trail of French Calvinists—apocryphal stories and actual immigrant [...] »
Olive branches from the North? Did the United States ever negotiate possible [...] »
Standardization is a fairly new concept in education.
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History lessons on the founding documents invariably include the Declaration [...] »