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Philadelphia began, nearly a century before the American Revolution, as the colony of Englishman and Quaker convert William Penn. Founded in 1681 o...
View full detailsThe birthplace of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, Pennsylvania is steeped in history as deep as that of th...
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The Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world——by entrusting c...
View full detailsThe history of the Main Line began in 1832 with the building of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, which opened the area to Philadelphia and po...
View full detailsImagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies. Beginning in the land of Elvis at Tupelo, one moves down...
View full detailsBrooklyn, a magical name, both fantasy and enigma. Yet despite its reputation, Brooklyn consists of provincial, suburban neighborhoods, a small tow...
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They did the dirty work of the American RevolutionTheir spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of...
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A brilliant account of the proud and ferocious American fighters who stood up to the British forces in savage battles crucial in deciding both the ...
View full details"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into adv...
View full detailsFounded in 1666 along the Passaic River by Puritans arriving from the New Haven colony farther east, Newark emerged in the nineteenth century at th...
View full detailsFrom Mount Vernon to Georgetown, The White House to the monuments, Historic Photos of Washington, D.C. is a photographic history collected from the...
View full detailsLike the tides of the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore’s fortunes have ebbed and flowed through the years, from its bustling beginnings as a colonial port...
View full detailsOne of the thirteen original colonies, the state of New Jersey is a study in contrasts. It is both the Garden State, home to the Rutgers tomato, bu...
View full detailsDelaware, the First State, has always been a vibrant reflection of early American history. Historic Photos of Delaware captures more than a century...
View full detailsThe history of Hoboken, New Jersey, is an American blue-collar success story. Once a riverside getaway for New Yorkers, the port city of Hoboken de...
View full detailsFrom the home of the City of Oaks in Raleigh and the state's capitol, to the Bull City in Durham, Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durham is a photograph...
View full detailsIn 1950 Dallas was a spirited Texas town of some regional importance; by 1980 it was an international city, one of the nation’s most populous, a ce...
View full detailsIn 1766, Moravian settlers, most having migrated to the Crown colony of North Carolina from Pennsylvania, established the town of Salem. Over eight...
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Palisades Park is a summer community of 200 cottages scattered throughout the dunes and along the shore of Lake Michigan, seven miles south of Sout...
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(From the Preface) This book on the history of Farmington represents more than two and a half years of work by the staff of the Farmington Public L...
View full detailsDetroit is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Detroit has consistently built and reshaped its ap...
View full detailsPensacola is a city of firsts, from the first documented European settlement in North America to the first Naval Aviation training station. From it...
View full detailsAlexandria, Virginia, has been witness to events which helped create America. Many of the nation's founding fathers and well-known historical figur...
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AN ENLIGHTENING, EXPANDED VIEW OF AMERICAN MARITIME HISTORY From Native Americans with birch bark canoes and inventive colonists who took fishing ...
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