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This painting, by Peter Rothermel, depicts Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1765.
During the evening of June 16 (1775), General Clinton (one of the British commanders) was hearing strange sounds coming from the Charlestown peninsula...
In 1798, Revere described his ride (and his capture) in a letter to Jeremy Belknap:.
During America's Civil War, one of the country's most-famous writers penned a poem about ... the Revolutionary War.
This aerial photograph of Pearl Harbor was taken on the 30th of October, 1941 - about five weeks before Japan attacked the naval base.
This captured Japanese photo, taken by an attack pilot, depicts a huge burst of sea spray after a successful torpedo strike at Battleship Row.
Because the clouds have cleared on Sunday morning - December 7, 1941 - every pilot has an unobstructed view as hundreds of Japanese airplanes approach...
Image of a captured Japanese photograph taken on December 7, 1941.
It's September, 1928, when Alexander Fleming sees something unusual in a culture plate. What he found changes the infection-fighting world, going on t...
The story of penicillin is an interesting one, starting with its name. "Penicillium" means "painter's brush" in Latin. Under a microscope, that's exac...
In its 10 October 1846 issue, the London Pictorial Times publishes an article about an ongoing famine in Ireland.
William Penn's treaty with the Delaware, when he founded the Colony of Pennsylvania in 1681, helped to have peaceful relations between the Colonists a...
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