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How Mormon History has Shaped Mitt Romney 1 ellisonz May 2012 May 2012 0 2146

Roanoke Colony Revealed? Prof Finds The Mysterious Colony's Capital. 1 elleng May 2012 May 2012 2 2664

North Carolina, British researchers find clue to location of Lost Colony. 0 Adsos Letter May 2012 May 2012 1 2048

Award Winners at the 2012 OAH/NCPH Meeting (Looking for Good Reads?) 1 ellisonz Apr 2012 May 2012 1 2143

Walter Russell Mead: The Myth of America's Decline 4 ellisonz Apr 2012 Apr 2012 0 3077

Well, I'm reading "1491" by Charles Mann 10 canoeist52 Dec 2011 Apr 2012 1 3556

Explorers group discovers name of Lake Michigan shipwreck - w/video 0 Bozita Apr 2012 Apr 2012 2 2085

Who are your top five American Presidents? 22 ellisonz Feb 2012 Apr 2012 0 5995

Finley Peter Dunne - Great American Humorist or Greatest American Humorist? 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2926

This is the Historic story of the only known black man on the Titanic... 0 Rowdyboy Apr 2012 Apr 2012 2 1643

Search for Amelia Earhart Starts Again 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 0 2824

New Look at an Old Memo Casts More Doubt on Rehnquist 4 ellisonz Mar 2012 Apr 2012 1 2560

U.S. Holocaust Museum refutes FDR supporters' defense of failure to bomb Auschwitz 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Apr 2012 0 2579

Brooklyn hunts for spirit of 1776 soldiers 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 2537

Professional Boredom 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1681

Eric Foner: Rooted in Reconstruction ... The First Wave of Black Congressmen 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1786

Census documenting Great Depression to be released 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 1 1771

As World War One centennial nears, fight erupts over memorial 3 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 3084

America's history: Interior department tries to better tell history of all Americans 0 ellisonz Mar 2012 Mar 2012 0 1499

Researching General Ethan Allen 2 flamingdem Feb 2012 Mar 2012 0 1938

The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2555

Please Keep Your Government Hands On My University 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1795

British spies stumped by Charlie Chaplin mystery 3 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2346

"Red Tails": The Tuskegee Airmen Deserved a Movie That's Not Completely Unwatchable 1 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1978

The Lincoln-Douglas debates weren’t as great as Gingrich thinks 2 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2168

I am reading James Bradley's-"The Imperial Cruise"- 4 digonswine Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 3484

A Mexican Immigrant’s Act of Honor 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1699

Lookie what we found in our old house 14 47of74 Jan 2012 Feb 2012 15 7798

Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north Queensland 1 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 3 2166

W.Va. coal group wants Blair Mountain case tossed 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1616

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Black History Month: Debunking the 10 biggest myths about black history 5 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 4103

Urban Renewal’s Record Shows It Wasn’t All Bad 0 RZM Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1514

Monument for black Revolutionary War patriots readied for Senate consideration 2 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2230

Robert Higgs: Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism? 16 ellisonz Dec 2011 Feb 2012 1 5080

Alabama's last known real daughter of the Confederacy buried in Cullman (al.com) 1 eppur_se_muova Jan 2012 Feb 2012 1 1868

In search of slave clothes: A museum director’s hunt for a painful symbol 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 1 2034

150 years later, Dakota war wounds still cut deep 0 ellisonz Feb 2012 Feb 2012 2 1672

Chilling tape from Air Force One on day JFK shot 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1770

Another trivia question 24 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 4443

LAT: Huntington acquires trove of Lincoln, Civil War telegrams, codes 5 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 3 2579

1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks 4 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2878

Full time, tenure track position for a History teacher at Napa Valley College 1 Adsos Letter Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2125

Tapes: JFK Saw DC Disconnect 0 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1326

Here's a trivia question 16 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3386

Former President John Tyler’s (1790-1862) grandchildren still alive 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1998

Okay Historians, Summarize Newt Gingrich in Four Words 1 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2066

This Land is Our Land: The Popular Front and American Culture 1 RZM Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1620

Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1790

Texas crews excavate bones of purported ex-slaves 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1867

66 Years After He Saved a Navy Ship, Another Battle Is Won 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 1781

Washington Monument gets $7.5M for repairs 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1712

Ron Paul invokes the ... Millard Fillmore doctrine? 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1935

Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary take on the Bible reissued 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 1952

Ok I read "Killing Lincoln" by O'Reilly and I have a question. 3 yellowcanine Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 3122

Debunking neo-confederate revisionist propaganda 3 TigerToMany Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 4154

Michael H. Hunt: How Beijing Sees Us 2 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 1 2693

Anyone planning on going to any of the Civil War 150th Anniversary events? 3 charlie and algernon Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 2351

Gorbachev: Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? 9 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 1 4180

Favorite documentaries? 19 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Jan 2012 0 6724

Strange But True: Ron Paul Thinks The American Civil War Was 'Unnecessary' 12 ellisonz Dec 2011 Jan 2012 2 5693

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Passions for the past — and jobs — come alive at history convention 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1726

The 7th Annual Cliopatria Awards for History Blogging 0 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 1836

Candidates Show Fondness for World War II References 6 ellisonz Jan 2012 Jan 2012 0 3240

Woody Guthrie: Bound for Local Glory at Last 0 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2283

A 1969 plan to build a second, nuke-proof Manhattan below New York City 1 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2663

Civil War Sesquicentennial 10 melonkali Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3590

Twain ripped 4 Bucky Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2993

The Fallacy of Reaganomics 1 NomadicView Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2017

Bill deals with sailors killed in 1804, Jewish WWI heroes, ship names 2 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2197

Today in American History....the 238th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.... 3 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3281

Only 1/3rd of Americans Supported the American Revolution? 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 3320

Okay, so apparently every group needs a host and we don't have one here.... 20 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 7421

The Road to War between the U.S. and Japan was Paved by Irreconcilable Worldviews 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2804

Today in American History...the 67th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge 1 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 5108

Duplicate post deleted 0 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1431

Today in American History....the 200th anniversary of the first New Madrid Earthquake 0 Rowdyboy Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1379

Has anyone read the 2-volume "Road to Disunion" by William Freehling? 3 Adsos Letter Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2982

"J. Edgar" Fails to Deliver the Historical Goods 3 ellisonz Dec 2011 Dec 2011 2 2750

I watched "Sherman's March" last night, the History Channel's production. 3 raccoon Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 2555

My book on how the states got their names... 14 kag Dec 2011 Dec 2011 6 5661

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