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Featured US History Blog Entries
U.S. History to 1919
What Seems to Have Been the
Meaning of Christmas
to Early Americans?
How Did
Early Americans Celebrate Christmas?
George Washington:
Before the F & I War
George Washington:
Commander-in-Chief
- 1775
George Washington:
The Origin of the Culper Ring
Thomas Jefferson:
The Road to the Declaration of
Independence
Thomas Jefferson:
The Virginia Reformer
(Fall 1776)
Benedict Arnold:
The Battle of Valcour Island
(1776)
Benedict Arnold:
The Defense of Fort Stanwix
(1777)
Benedict Arnold:
The Hero of Saratoga
(1777)
Benedict Arnold: America's Most Famous Traitor
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
Samuel Adams
: 1730s to 1777 & Beyond
George Washington & the
Constitutional Convention
George Washington & the
3 Branches of Government
George Washington &
The Whiskey Rebellion, and
The Jay Treaty
Alexander Hamilton & the
Making of Modern America
Thomas Jefferson's
Last Year as SecState
(1793)
Thomas Jefferson: The
Leader of the Opposition
(1790 - 1797)
Alexander Hamilton:
1796-1804
The Election of 1800
: The Real Story . . .
The Burr-Hamilton Duel:
A Deeper Understanding I
The Burr-Hamilton Duel:
A Deeper Understanding II
Noah Webster & James Monroe (1776 - 1806)
The
Revolutionary War
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1782 - 1784
1785 - 1790
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1793 - 1796
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1799 - 1806
Noah Webster & the
Great American Dictionary
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
(1801 - 1809)
Founding Brothers
. . . the Crucial Years After the
Ratification of the Constitution . . .
James Monroe and the War of 1812:
Part 1
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Part 2
John Quincy Adams
Before 1817, Part 1
John Quincy Adams
Before 1817, Part 2
Dolley Madison:
The "First" First Lady
John Quincy Adams:
SecState & President
John Quincy Adams:
Congressman
James Madison & the
Constitutional Convention
James Madison:
Father of Politics, Part 1
(1774-1789)
James Madison:
Father of Politics, Part 2
(1789- 1799)
James Madison:
Secretary of State
(1800-1809)
James Madison:
President & Beyond
(1809-1836)
Andrew Jackson & The Battle of New Orleans
(1815)
President James Monroe (1817 - 1825)
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
Did a Barmaid Start the Civil War?
(The Eaton Affair during Jackson's Presidency)
Abraham Lincoln
During the 1830s
The Origin of the
Temperance Movement
Clay, Calhoun, and Webster
(1819 - 1850)
James Knox Polk &
The Mexican War
Abraham Lincoln
From 1840 - 1860
Wide-Awake:
The Radicalization of the 1860 Election
Elmer Ellsworth:
The 1st Union Hero of the Civil War
The Major Weapons
of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln & the Emancipation Proclamation
Part One
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Part Two
The Dakota War in Minnesota (1862)
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
Part Four
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Part Five
George Armstrong Custer
Before/During the Civil War
General Ulysses S. Grant
During the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln:
Childhood thru Assassination
George Armstrong Custer
After the Civil War
(1866 - 1868)
The
Impeachment & Attempted Removal
of President
Andrew Johnson (1868)
Ulysses S. Grant:
After the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant: President
(1869 - 1877)
The Rise of the Octopus
:
John D. Rockefeller
Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
Before Little Bighorn
Path to the Battle of Little Bighorn
, Pt. I
(1763-1860s)
Path to the Battle of Little Bighorn
,
Pt. II (1868-1876)
The Battle of Little Bighorn:
Part One
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Part Two
Why Did the South Win the Battle
for Reconstruction?
John D. Rockefeller and . . .
The
Cleveland Massacre
/ T
he
Great RR Strike of 1877
The
Creation of the Standard Oil Trust
(1882)
Temperance:
The Women's War
The Assassination of
President James Garfield
Edward Muybridge:
Motion Pictures & Murder
Edward Muybridge & "The Borrowers"
(e.g. Edison)
Chester A. Arthur: The Unexpected President
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
Theodore Roosevelt: Before His Presidency
Part One
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Part Two
Ida Tarbell & John D. Rockefeller:
Part 1
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Part 2
Cheap Amusements
of the Middle and Working
Classes During the Progressive Era
What Caused Class Conflict
During the
Progressive Era?
The Wright Brothers:
Before Kitty Hawk
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Kitty Hawk
Wilbur at Le Mans
(1908) //
Orville at Ft. Myer
(1908)
Wilbur in New York City
(1909)
TR & the
Pennsylvania Coal Strike
of 1902
- Doris Kearns-Goodwin:
Part One
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Part Two
Why Were the
Progressives Unable to End
Class Conflict?
The
San Francisco Earthquake
of 1906
The Year 1913
: The Year Before the Storm
Germany, France, Britain, & Russia:
Mobilization
How a German Battleship
Made WW I WORSE!
Theodore Roosevelt and the River of Doubt (1914)
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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Part 4
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Part 5
Harry Truman
and the Great War
Woodrow Wilson:
From Governor to President-Elect
August 1914 - June 1915
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The Election of 1916
Declaration of War
Against Germany
The Lusitania Disaster
(7 May 1915)
President Woodrow Wilson Goes to Paris
(1919)
The
Red Scare and Red Summer
(1919)
Red Summer:
The Chicago Race Riot
(July, 1919)
Red Summer:
The Omaha Lynching
(Sept, 1919)
Red Summer:
The Elaine Massacre
(October, 1919)
U.S. History Since 1919
Prohibition, the Volstead Act
& the 18th Amendment
Marcus Garvey and the KKK
in Nebraska
Calvin Coolidge & the
Boston Police Strike
(1919)
The Post-Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
(1921-24)
President Coolidge's
Economic Strategies
Truman:
Becoming Part of the Pendergast Machine
Herbert Hoover
: Humanitarian/President/Ex-President
Clarence Birdseye &
Frozen Food, Part 1
Clarence Birdseye &
Frozen Food, Part 2
The
Economics of Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath
The
Origins of the Dust Bowl
The Repeal of Prohibition
(21st Amendment)
FDR:
To 1920
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1921 - 1932
//
1st Hundred Days
FDR:
His Nearly TERMinal 2nd Term
as President
Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)
to 1938
Intrepid:
Creating an Alliance
(Churchill & FDR)
Charles Lindbergh Goes to Europe
(1935 - 1939)
The Most Divisive Years of the 20th Century
(1939-1941)
The Republican & Democratic National Conventions
,
and the War in Europe (1940)
The (Nasty) Election of 1940:
FDR v. Wendell Willkie
The Passage of the Lend-Lease Act
(1940-1941)
FDR Declares War on Isolationists
(1940-1941)
The US Role in the
Sinking of the Bismarck
(1941)
William Stephenson:
The Origin of Intrepid
Intrepid and
Operation Barbarossa
(1941)
Pearl Harbor:
America's "Reverse Earthquake"
From
Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway
Prelude to the Doolittle Raid
(1941 - 1942)
The
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Turning the Tide of World War II:
Overview
North Atlantic
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Gaining Control of the Skies
Enemy-Held Shores
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Stopping the Blitzkrieg
Conquering the "
Tyranny of Distance
" (Pacific)
The Man Who Won the Battle of Midway
(June 1942)
The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (July 1945)
Part One
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Part Two
The Office of Strategic Services
(OSS)
- Before the CIA, there was the OSS
The
USSR and the Manhattan Project
Intrepid, Niels Bohr, & the Manhattan Project
Part One
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Part Two
The Morality of the Atomic Bomb
After WW II
General Douglas MacArthur in Japan
: 1945 - 1950
Ronald Reagan
, Hollywood, & HUAC (1947)
Ronald Reagan,
the McCarthy Era, & TV
(1948-1954)
William Levitt and Levittown
(Birth of the Suburbs)
General Motors
, 1948 - 1956
The Rise and Fall of Milton Berle
: TV's 1st Superstar
Consumerism
in the 1950s
The Great Migration & the
Mechanical Cotton Picker
General Douglas MacArthur and the Korean War
Part One
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Part Two
The CIA Coup in Iran
(1953)
Sergeant Reckless:
Joins the Marines
Becomes a Marine
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Becomes a War Hero
Goes to America and is Celebrated
The First Term of
President Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
(1946 - 1960)
The McDonald Brothers
& Ray Kroc
Lucille Ball
and "I Love Lucy" //
Kemmons Wilson
Brown vs. the Board of Education at Topeka
(1954)
Elvis Presley in the 1950s:
Part One
/
Part Two
Rachel Carson & the Emergence
of the Environmental
Movement
The
"Lost Cause", the 2nd KKK, FDR
, and Senator
Joseph McCarthy (Jon Meacham)
Walter Cronkite & JFK:
1960
Robert F. Kennedy and the Election of 1960
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
LBJ:
A "Reader" of Men
; Presidential Candidate
LBJ & JFK: Before the 1960 Democratic National
C
onvention:
Part One
/
Part Two
JFK and Nixon: The Election of 1960
Part One
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Part Two
LBJ From 1941 - 1963:
Part One
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Part Two
Ronald Reagan
: 1961 - 1965
JFK and His Advisers
: The Bay of Pigs
JFK and His Advisers:
Khrushchev
JFK and His Advisers:
Cuba
JFK and His Advisers:
Vietnam
Richard Nixon:
Apr 1961-Feb 1968
/
Election of 1968
LBJ From 1963 - 1968:
Part One
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Part Two
The Life of Malcolm X
(Pre-1925 through 1965)
1965: The Real Beginning
of
the Tumultuous 1960s
Vietnam 1964:
Morley Safer and Cam Ne
The Fulbright Hearings
on the Vietnam War (1966)
Walter Cronkite's
Top Ten Television Moments
The "New Nixon"
(1968)
Senator Eugene McCarthy & the NH Primary (1968)
Part One
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Part Two
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Part Three
Walter Cronkite and the Tet Offensive
(1968)
LBJ's Announcement
on 31 March 1968
The Democratic Primaries
(1968) in IN, NE, OR, & CA
The Republican Nat'l Convention
of 1968 (Miami)
Before the Democratic Nat'l Convention of 1968
The Peace Plank:
Part One
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Part Two
The Democratic Nat'l Convention of 1968 (Chicago)
Part One
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Part Two
The 1968 Campaign & Nixon's "Perfect Crime"
Part One
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Part Two
Apollo 8
: NASA's 1st Journey to the Moon (Dec 1968)
The
Watergate Scandal
(& So Much More . . .)
Ronald Reagan:
1964 to July 1968
Campus Turmoil in California
//
1967 - 1975
The Republican Convention
of 1976
20 January - 30 March 1981
The Attempted Assassination
of President Reagan
The
Budget Battle of 1981
President Jimmy Carter
(1977 - 1981)
The 1970s
: The Rise of Conservatism in the US
George Herbert Walker Bush:
U.N. Ambassador
RNC Chairman
//
U.S. Envoy to China
Pursuing the Republican Nomination
in 1980
Becoming Reagan's VP Candidate
in 1980
The 1st Term of
Vice-President George Bush
Feminism on TV
in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Actors:
Steve McQueen:
"
A Magnificent Actor
"
Lee Marvin:
"
The Merchant of Menace
"