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Spanning Time: How Broome, Tioga counties emerged from New York's first county maps
Press Connects | Press & Sun-Bulletin via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOn Sept. 3, 1783, delegates from Great Britain and the fledgling United States of America met in...
Evidence of Revolutionary War POW camp site unearthed in Pennsylvania: 'We finally found it'
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoYORK, Pa. — On Monday morning, John Crawmer called Carol Tanzola and told her, “I think you should...
Today in History: November 30, actor Paul Walker dies in Porsche crash at age 40
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn Nov. 30, 2013, actor Paul Walker star of the “Fast & Furious” movie series, died with his friend, Roger W. Rodas, who was at the wheel of a Porsche sports car that crashed and burned north ...
Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India? A growing number of historians think...
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA number of historains are reassessing the American Revolutionary War and looking at it as much more...
Fire swamps are more than just folk legend
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoFire swamps could be real, though they'd look a bit different than ROUS territory. What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is,...
How the Astor family became an American dynasty
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Waldorf-Astoria.Spencer Platt/Getty Images John Jacob Astor built his fortune in the fur business and New York real estate. John Jacob Astor III and...
The 1539 Project: Why Black Midwest and Iowa history matters
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTO READERS: An earlier version of this essay gave the wrong date for Nikole Hannah-Jones' speech at Iowa State University. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Waterloo ...
The design of diplomacy: See inside the lavish reception rooms at the US State Department
CNN via Yahoo News· 9 months agoA new book, “America’s Collection: The Art and Architecture of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the...
