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Permeable Border
From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has …
University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College
On September 13, 1876, the bell on Atwood Hall rang, students assembled, and Rio Grande College began its 140-year search for identity and its struggle for existence. Ira Haning, a …
Down Ballot
When an obscure primary election met the culture wars In 1990, a suburban Chicago race for the Republican Party nomination for state representative unexpectedly became a national …
Hidden History of Cleveland
Discover the rich past and local landmarks of this uniquely American city-includes numerous photos. Too often, we think of history as something that happens elsewhere. In …
Festiniog 1946-55
Haunted Graveyards of the Ozarks
A terrifying tour of cemeteries where ghosts of Civil War soldiers, criminals, and others wander the grounds . . . includes photos! From the neatly tended urban necropolis to the …
Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of …
Mr. E. 2003
Life Painted Red
In 1884, twenty-three-year-old Corabelle Fellows left her family in Washington, DC, and journeyed out West to teach Native children in Nebraska and Dakota Territory. She hoped her …
Making a Difference
2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, …