At River Raisin National Battlefield Park, a site in southeast Michigan that commemorates a crushing U.S. defeat during the War of 1812, visitors may spot a human-size muskrat — and perhaps even ...

then loss of cultural sites and eventually an entire landscape — and its history along with it. Somewhere in this landscape, around 1822, Harriet Tubman was born into an enslaved family. She grew up ...

Ottawa is negotiating a $500-million bailout for Nova Scotia's privately owned electric utility, saying the money will be ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

A concerning new bat coronavirus is among 36 novel viruses detected among animals including racoon dogs, mink and guinea pigs ...

The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. How Ouija became the most feared spirit board in history How ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

September 19, 2024 • Climate change, political unrest, random violence - Western society can often feel like what the filmmaker Werner Herzog calls, "a thin layer of ice on top of an ocean of ...

The classification of muskrat as a "fish" was not done out of ... Watts is an associate professor of history and women, gender & sexuality studies at the University of Richmond.

Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

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