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Glad We Could Help
Awhile back we got an unusual request for temporary access to The Dolley Madison Digital Edition. This is one of the databases in our American Founding Era collection, published by our electronic...
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Meet Martha Washington
Although she famously burned all but two of the letters from her husband George, Martha Custis Washington amassed a correspondence that is sizable, articulate, and—as it reached out to numerous people...
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LISTEN: “To Put It Brutally…”
On this, the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War seems like a distant dream and America’s actions during that long tragedy are as inscrutable as ever. As early as 1971, one...
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LISTEN: A Decent Interval
Despite agreement among Richard Nixon and his advisors by 1971 that the Vietnam War was a lost cause, the president took the advice of his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, and decided to...
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Archipedia Expands to N. Dakota
We’re pleased to announce the addition of 409 building entries, illustrated by 424 photographs, from the just-published Buildings of North Dakota volume by Steve C. Martens and Ronald H. L. M. Ramsay,...
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Three volumes from the Adams Papers and Papers of James Madison projects are the source for nearly 1,200 new documents in Rotunda’s American Founding Era collection. Adams Family Correspondence, Volume...
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LISTEN: The Next Step Up the Ladder
July 28 marks an anniversary that is not well known but which looms large in American history. On that day in 1965, Lyndon Johnson appeared on television to deliver his famous “Why We Are in Vietnam”...
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LISTEN: “No Sunday School Picnic”
In the summer of 1965, exactly fifty years ago, President Johnson made the decision to “Americanize” the Vietnam War. This meant escalating dramatically the number of US troops in Vietnam and, after...
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Woodrow Wilson Papers To Go Online
Rotunda, the electronic imprint of the University of Virginia Press, announced it will create an online edition of the Papers of Woodrow Wilson. With the permission of the Princeton University Press...
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The Gales of November Came Early
Tuesday, 10 November, marks the fortieth anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior. The largest vessel on the Great Lakes when it was launched in the mid-1950s, this iron-ore...
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