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| | | | | There are many iconic images in U.S. military history: Washington crossing the Delaware, the surrender at Appomattox,troops landing on Omaha Beach, to name a few. But few paintings or photographs have managed to capture one of the most significant weapons in the U.S. arsenal: the knife hand. Able to cleave the air with a... | |
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| | | | | The story of the Doan Gang is a reminder that not every American colonial was fighting for independence during the American Revolution. In the USA today, our national origin story has becomea self-servinglegend which has grown to encompass a political and social outlook that still influences our present-day politics. According to this myth, the whole... | |
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| | | | | The Fourth of July has always been an important day in the U.S. It marks the day in 1776 when the colonies issued the Declaration of Independence from the British Empire. A new nation was born, at least for a little while. In 1861 that nation was torn apart by a bloody Civil War that saw its turning point on another fourth of July, that of 1863. On that day the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant. The Union army had been trying to take it since the beginning of the war. The fortified city was the key to the Mississippi River. If the North could control the river it would cut ... | |
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| | | Although suicide has always been considered to be the most personal of acts, it has a complex social and cultural history in the Western world one that has been shaped by three-thousand years of shifting moralities, public opinions, popular superstitions, religious beliefs, medical interpretations and philosophical debates. In ancient Greek and Roman societies, self-death [] | ||
