The grand old Bedford Springs, which has its roots in 18th-century America, looked even grander as nearly three dozen green ...

The lake's salinity convinced the mountain men that the lake must be an arm of the Pacific Ocean. Bridger's "discovery" ...

In 1831, fifteen delegates from five states met again in Philadelphia's Wesleyan Church. Other Negro Conventions continued to meet up until and after the Civil War to address the issue of black ...

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“I began the process assuming that everything he’d written in ‘Ornithological Biography’ must be true and accurate, aside from a few honest mistakes and a few puzzling lapses,” Kaufman said, referring ...

[W]hat northerners were saying now is they didn't want slavery to be part of the future in the West, because slavery would threaten their values, their sense of a work ethic. They were especially ...

Journal of the Statistical Society of London Vol. 11, No. 1, Mar., 1848 The Progress of the Prussian Nation, 180... The Progress of the Prussian Nation, 1805, 1831, 1842 This is the metadata section ...

By Annette Hinkle In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase added 530,000,000 acres of land to the United States. Stretching from New Orleans to beyond the northern border of Montana, President Thomas Jefferson ...