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Apportionment in the House of Representatives and pay raises for Congress [...] »
Building an edifice of statistics—where can you learn about the real estate [...] »
Three significant changes affect how we teach history and who is teaching it [...] »
Is it all right to make up stories about real people to teach children about [...] »
From South Carolina to Maine, colonists protested the Tea Act of 1773.
[...] »Almost two million dollars allocated to feed prisoners was returned to the U [...] »
Just before the Revolution, between 2,000 and 3,000 Jews lived in the [...] »
Unforeseen events and potential crises forced politicians and lawmakers to [...] »
Schooling and transportation of goods were of greater concern to most than [...] »
In Hawaii today, a large number of people might be considered heirs or [...] »