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"Chancellorsville" Second Ed. - by Gen. Edward J. Stackpole
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"Day in Infamy" - FDR Changes to First Draft of Speech
President Roosevelt's first choice of words, in his famous December 8th speech, was not "day in infamy." This facsimile, of his marked-up draft, reveals the original sentence began: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in world history ...Click on the image for a better v...
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"Last Man Out" Book Cover
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"Magic" Code - Background of Pearl Harbor
The following summarizes conversations between diplomats during the immediate time before Pearl Harbor was bombed. SUMMARY OF THE HULL-NOMURA CONVERSATIONS Relations between the United States and Japan were growing worse rapidly by the middle of February 19...
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"The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy"
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"To Arms" Newspaper Article
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1704 Penal Codes
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450 B.C. - The World According to Herodotus
What did the world look like in 450 BC? This map provides a birds-eye view - according to the History of Herodotus. Click on the image for a more detailed view.
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A Dinosaur Named Sue
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A Dinosaur Named Sue - By Pat Relf
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion


















