Jack, a young mastiff, was to become one of the best-known mascots of the Civil War because his story was reported by a reporter with Harper’s Weekly in 1862. Jack […]
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The comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, was created by a young cartoonist by the name of Harold Gray (1894-1968). Gray’s parents both died before he had finished school, so he
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During the Revolutionary War, there were numerous women who heroically stood up for the Patriots’ cause, yet so often the stories we hear take on the aspect of myth. Betsy
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The story goes that in 1937 two Coast Guardsmen returned to their ship, The U.S.S. George W. Campbell, docked in Staten Island. They carried with them a bag they tried
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker overcame resistance from the military and served as a battlefield surgeon during the Civil War. She was acknowledged for her work when she was awarded the
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Elizabeth Masser and Peter Thorn emigrated to the United States from Germany and were married in Gettysburg in September of 1855. That year that the cornerstone for the local cemetery
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