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Roosevelt In, Hoover Out

4/29/2015

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The last time presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt saw each other was the day of Roosevelt’s inauguration.  

David Pietrusza, 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 438. 

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Slavery by the Numbers

4/22/2015

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The U.S. slave population grew from 20 in 1619 to 697,681 in 1790 to 3,953,760 in 1860. 

William J. Switala, Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania, 2nd Ed. (Mechanicsburg, PA; Stackpole Books, 2008), 5.

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Burglars as Professional Anti-Communists

4/15/2015

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All five men arrested for the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972 listed their profession as “anti-communist.”

Keith W. Olson, Watergate: The Presidential Scandal that Shook America (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2003), 45.

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Experienced English Attackers

4/8/2015

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Many of the English soldiers involved in the Battle of Mistick Fort during the Pequot War in 17th century Connecticut were veterans of the Thirty Years War in Europe.

Jason Urbanus, “America’s First War: Uncovering Evidence of a Little Known Colonial-Era Conflict that Forever Altered the Dynamics of Native American and European Relations in North America,” Archaeology, January/February 2015, 35

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Arnold Accidentally Attacked

4/1/2015

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As Benedict Arnold was traveling to meet his contact in the British military, a British gunboat attacked Arnold’s boat because the British contact did not tell his forces of the meeting. 

Dave R. Palmer, George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2006), 342.

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