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How Did the Arrival of Europeans Change North America?
The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers ...
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Smithsonian Launches Online Lesson That Investigates Long-Omitted Information on California’s History
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian’s new digital lesson “California Native American Survival and Resilience During the Mission Period: A Source Investigation” provides a more ...
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What do countries call themselves? The stories behind their original names
Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...
These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers
Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...
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In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
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Gulf of Mexico will change to Gulf of America in Maps app, Google says
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...