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Little white flags peer out of the earth on a Lower Paxton Township roadside. And in recent weeks, you might have seen volunteers laboring among them near a fenced-in cemetery. The flags are the ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

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Discover the hidden history of the War of 1812 at the River Raisin Battlefield in Monroe, Michigan—home to America’s only National Park unit dedicated to telling the story of Native nations and their ...

British documents on the origins of the war, 1898-1914 by Great Britain. Foreign Office; Gooch, G. P. (George Peabody), 1873-1968; Temperley, Harold William Vazeille, 1879-1939 ...