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The Canal That Built America

13 Jan

The United States was a growing nation during the nineteenth century. It grew territorially, spreading from sea to shining sea. It also grew industrially, from an agrarian society in the 1800s to the world’s greatest industrial power in the early … Read More »

1919: The Red Year

15 Nov

The year 1919 was a tremendous year in the twentieth century. It was the year that the map of  the world was redrawn. World War I ended at the Treaty of Versailles that year. Germany and her allies were devastated. … Read More »