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In response to this 18th-century vandalism/terrorism/coercion, the British government introduced a series of punitive measures under the Coercive Acts including dissolving the colonial assembly, ...
From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...
A few months before the 1988 federal election, the editorial board of the Globe and Mail issued a resounding endorsement of ...
Fifty years after the end of the war, a group of U.S. veterans spent two weeks traveling through Vietnam by bus. They once came as soldiers. Now, they are searching for forgiveness.
Among the surviving items were several testifying to the nation’s unusual historic ties to the United States—an American flag ... uncommon sight of Africans waving the Stars and Stripes.
The flag that Key saw waving above the rampart now hangs in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History; Key’s words appear on the inside flap of U.S. passports; and Fort McHenry is ...
And Robert Kennedy, who started out as the anti-Communist who made Joe McCarthy godfather of his first child, ended up as the only American politician ... their moment of waving and smiling ...
Wet and cold didn’t daunt the spirit of the Bedford Minuteman Company, the other colonial militia groups, and a large group ...
Let me tell you about a place where time moves at its own delightful pace, where brick buildings from the 1700s stand proudly alongside flowering gardens, and where the smell of freshly made chocolate ...
The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...