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The Blockade That Failed

Author: Daniel O’flaherty

Not until the Civil War was about over did the U.S. Navy manage to put a halt to the South’s imports

Made For America

Author: Ruth B. Davidson

Distant lands supplied patriotic tableware to the new Republic

Spoiled Child Of American Politics

Author: John A. Garraty

Henry Cabot Lodge was a public man in the old sense—one who was often wrong but never evil

Crazy Bill Had A Down Look

Author: Louis C. Jones

Quaint pictures and a grim story tell of prejudice and mob passion in upstate New York of the 1840’s

Collaborationist: 1776

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Newspaper ads from occupied New York illumine Revolutionary War loyalties

The End Of Formalized Warfare

Author: Louis Morton

Military science was very rigid in the 1600’s. It quickly changed when Americans began to fight Indians

Evangelists To The Machine Age

Author: Bernard A. Weisberger

Calling millions to repentance, Moody and Sankey devised a new method of spreading the gospel

General Howe’s Orderly Book

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Never before printed, the headquarters record of the British conqueror of New York illuminates crucial events of the American Revolution.

A Medical Profile Of George Washington

Author: Rudolph Marx, M.d.

Stalwart as he was, the general was often ill. A doctor studies his record and notes shortcomings in Eighteenth-Century medical care.

The Early Days of Radio

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An unpublished story from the files of the Oral History Project