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The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.

A wide-ranging talk, both geographically and historically, on the accelerating changes in the global economy

    THE NEW PILGRIM’S PROGRESS Mark Twain c. 1867 (Source: Wiki)   In 1867 Mark Twain was among the passengers of the Quaker City. The ship

The link between William H. Seward and the creation of Thanksgiving as a national holiday will be the subject of a talk this week in Auburn.

A librarian from suburban Baltimore is getting skewered for failing to correctly identify William H. Seward as the author of an 1867 letter in Monday's final "Jeopardy!" round.

Weather in northwest Orange County for Thursday, March 30, 2023

By. Dr. Joel Schlesinger, President’s Day commemorates the lives and accomplishments of George Washington, our nation’s first president, and Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth. As individuals and as leaders, how much did they have in common? A pair of events--Washington’s leadership of the Continent ...

Marxist website defending the ideas of Marxism as a tool for workers and youth today - by the International Marxist Tendency.

Lincoln had consistently held that the president alone could not abolish slavery; there...

The Biden administration’s decision to provide Ukraine with what the president himself described yesterday in a <em>NY Times</em> column as “advanced rocket systems” is a massive escalation of the war with potentially catastrophic consequences.