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A century ago, the government hired unemployed young men to build America's forests, trails, and parks. Photos show FDR's 'tree army.'
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...
Mexico News Daily1d
Were these Mexican-American War heroes real?
In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...
The New Yorker1d
Was the Civil War Inevitable?
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
The birth of the American Revolution
Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...
The National Interest4d
These Forgotten American “Doughboys” Fought for the British in WWI
The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...
scmp.com5d
South Sudan teetering on edge of renewed civil war, UN official warns
South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...