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Bookcover image of Stalingrad: The Fateful siege 1942 - 1943, by Anthony Beevor.
This is one of the original manuscripts which Francis Scott Key penned following the Battle of Fort McHenry. It is online, courtesy the Smithson...
Bookcover image of Steven Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Professor Gregg Cantrell.
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, by Gregg Cantrell, is the first full-length biography of the "Father of Texas" in more than seventy year...
This now-declassified cable from the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) to President Harry Truman (who was attending the Potsdam Conference in Germany) ...
Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). This page tells the story of what it was like to s...
Parliament requires all newspapers with mastheads to be printed on specially embossed paper, but what if the news gets printed on paper without a mast...
The Table of Contents page from the book, Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative.
This image depicts the tally of electoral votes for the election of 1800 where Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 votes. As a result of ...
People smuggled liquor into the States on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. This telegram involves the smuggling of liquor into Oregon v...
This is a facsimile of the telegram which General Hooker had his assistant send to President Lincoln, after the Union's defeat at Chancellorsville: ...
This is a facsimile of Tennessee's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. With this victory, the Amendment had enough sup...
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