Child Labor in the 1800s
By the year 1900, about a fifth of all workers in the U.S. were under 16 years of age. In southern cotton mills, 25 percent of the...
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Civil War Surgery
While war weapons during the Civil War had advanced in destructiveness, medical technology had not kept pace.
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Gall, The Mightiest Warrior
Elizabeth Custer said of the great Hunkpapa Chief: "I never in my life dreamed there could be...so fine a specimen of warrior as Gall."
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Wishing all Notes from the Frontier readers a Happy Labor Day Weekend!
For most Americans, today—Labor Day—is the last hurrah of summer—picnics, bar-b-que, that last summer weekend party before autumn.
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The First Thanksgivings
The first Thanksgiving in North American is popularly believed to have taken place at Plymouth Colony in 1621 with Pilgrims and Wampanoag.
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The Gettysburg Address
Seven score and 16 years ago today, on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave his immortal speech.
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Arlington Cemetery, In Honor of Our Veterans
The 612 acres that today comprise Arlington National Cemetery was once the plantation and Greek Revival mansion of General Robert E Lee.
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The Axe-idental Tourist: Part 3
Paul Mueller’s reign of terror between 1898 and 1912 included more than 25 cases and probably more than 100 victims from coast to coast.
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The Axe-idental Tourist: Part 2
After the Lizzie Borden axe murders in 1892, an epidemic of axe murders ravaged the country for about twenty years.
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The Axe-idental Tourist: Part 1
Nearly everyone has heard of the sensational Lizzie Borden axe murder case of 1892 but, Iowa had a case that was far worse.
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TERRRIFYING TEN: America's Most Haunted Places
Everyone is fascinated by ghost stories. In celebration of Halloween, Notes from the Frontier will take you on a virtual tour.
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The Surprising History of Lady Liberty
She’s been called the Mother of Exiles, Lady of the Harbor, Lady Liberty, the Green Goddess, Mother of Freedom, The Statue of Liberty.
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Revolutionary War Victory Day: October 19
We all recognize and celebrate July 4th as the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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The Iroquois Theater Fire of 1903
It is the deadliest building fire in U.S. history but most people have never heard of it.
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America's First Animal Shelter
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of America’s first animal shelter in 1869 in Philadelphia.
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Prehistoric Giants Unearthed
Once trunked titans 15 feet tall, weighing up to ten tons, with monstrous tusks 20 feet long roamed North America from sea to sea.
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National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15-Oct 15)
Hispanic history in the United States has often been largely passed over.
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America's Oldest Brands
The legacy of American brand names also tells the story of America’s growth and expansion marching across the continent.
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In Praise of the Working Man & Woman
The cogs of the Industrial Revolution loomed grinding and monstrous over the individual worker and killed workers at spectacular rate.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Women have always worked but during the Industrial Revolution, they flocked to the cities in droves to work in factories.
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