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In the Treaty of Paris, 1783, Great Britain offered the new United States generous terms that includ
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Could customs collectors, the tax men of early America, be the unsung founders of the early United S
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What can the collections of the Harvard University Libraries teach us about our early American past?
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Did you know that George Washington’s favorite drink was whiskey? Actually, it wasn’t. Washington pr
The American Revolution inspired revolutions in France, the Caribbean, and in Latin and South Americ
