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Articles with keyword "history"

National History Day

Feature

Historians in Training

By Anna Maria Gillis

Students from around the globe show their mettle at National History Day

Pickup football game among "breaker boys."

Curio

Penn's Woods Online

By Steve Moyer

Keeping tabs on the Commonwealth's uncommon history.

Ednote

Editor's Note, July/August 2012

By David Skinner

A question lingering in every issue of HUMANITIES is how we remember.

ODH in the News

By Perry Collins

With the announcement of our most recent round of 22 funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants projects and the continued accomplishments of many other ODH projects, we have seen a number of news stories in recent weeks featuring ODH grantees.

The floral wallpaper is a reproduction of the first layer of wallpaper discovere

Curio

Wallflower

By Anna Gillis

The history of the The Lower East SideTenement Museum is revealed.

Philip Lampi

Feature

The Orphan Scholar

By Katherine Mangu-Ward

Philip Lampi's lifelong quest to document elections of the early Republic.

Civil War-era group portrait of blacks near the James River in Virginia

Feature

Reading the Civil War

By Adam Kirsch

The moral and political dilemmas of the time seem so clear in retrospect.

Parlor at Mount Vernon Hotel

Curio

When Rural Ruled Uptown

By Steve Moyer

Manhattan harbors hotel gem from the1820s.

American Indian delegation at White House

Statement

A Nation of Treaties

By James Williford

Minnesota examines the treaties between the United States and American Indians.

Two sailing vessels at sea in nineteenth century

Feature

A Diplomatic Education

By Meredith Hindley

Early in the Civil War, the Union narrowly avoided war with Britain.