Rare Colonial New England coin up for auction, expected to fetch $1 million
With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...
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America’s Electoral College: Six Surprising Facts About the Who and How
Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.
The Story of America’s Oldest Tombstone Is Surprisingly Complicated
A rich knight likely paid a handsome sum to import the ornately carved monument, despite brutal conditions in the Jamestown ...
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America’s oldest tombstone journeyed across the Atlantic and honored a knight
In 1901, a broken tombstone from the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown was rediscovered in ...