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Celebrate Imperfect Ancestors Premium
Family secrets, black sheep and skeletons in the closet—when you start investigating your roots, expect surprises. Here's how to be prepared for twists in your family tree.
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Civil War Submarine Resurfaces Premium
Even before its final mission, the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley was a coffin ship. When nine men climbed inside on a cold night in 1864, they knew that its iron belly had suffocated previous crews. But the Confederacy needed a secret weapon against Union ships blockading vital routes. Confederate...
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Thanksgiving Facts You Might Not Know
What really happened at the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving meal in 1621? Here are some Thanksgiving facts you might not know.
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AncestorNews: Be My Valentine Premium
AncestorNews: Be My Valentine I recently acquired a Valentine that my grandmother's younger sister sent to her around 1915. Although the card is more than 80 years old, the color is still vivid and the lace paper is in fairly good condition. When I got the card, I checked...
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Timeline of Southern US History Premium
Get a glimpse into the events that influenced your Southern ancestors' lives.
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Everything’s Relative: Meat the Whole Family Premium
Before "spam" became a ubiquitous term for unsolicited e-mail, there was Spam, the canned meat—as the Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn., the makers of Spam and zealous protectors of its trademark, will be quick to remind you. But did you know that there's now a whole Spam family? You...
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Historical Weather Resources Premium
In this article: Weather history Web sites Weather history books Web Sites 10 Non-Military Historical Events Drastically Changed by the Weather Benjamin Franklin: Weather Wise Flood of 1927: Encyclopedia of Arkansas GenDisasters History of the National Weather Service How Weather Changed History Ohio River Flood of 1937 PBS American...
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Ethnic American Pride Premium
Americans of native, African and Chinese descent were once negatively stereotyped and discriminated against because of their ethnicity. Now pride is beginning to replace prejudice—at least for some ethnic Americans. The number of people who called themselves Native Americans in the 2000 US Census more than doubled from a...
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Music of the Civil War Premium
Molly Mason admits she didn't know much about Civil War music when she and her husband, Jay Ungar, were tapped by Ken Burns to play the haunting soundtrack for "The Civil War" PBS-TV series. (Ungar wrote the now-famous "Ashokan Farewell" used by Burns as the epic documentary's theme.) "We...
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Everything’s Relative: Never on Sunday Premium
One of my paternal great-grandfathers (five back) held a surprising story for me. His name was Abraham Rice and he lived in Framingham, Mass. One Sunday morning in June 1777, he and a neighbor discussed the purchase of a horse. Their bargain was made and, as they shook hands on...
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