The renowned American frontiersman and fur trapper, Hugh Glass, is widely recognized as an emblematic figure of the American frontier era and a beloved folk hero. He gained widespread fame after enduring a brutal bear attack that left him abandoned by his fellow trappers and presumed dead. Despite the near-fatal injuries, Glass summoned the courage […]
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The Abenaki tribe is one of the lesser-known Native American groups. Abenaki refers to the collection of several different tribes, including the Ossipee, Sokoki, Winnipesaukee, Penacook, Pigwacket, and Cowasuck. Although each was an individual tribe, they spoke the same language and were collectively known as the Abenaki people. The Abenaki tribe, also known as the
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Imagine if, at the end of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the beast never transforms from a ferocious, hairy monster into a dashing prince. And imagine that Belle isn’t a brave, beautiful girl with a loving, maternal instinct but an ordinary woman forced into marrying a freakishly hairy man she’s never met. If you add those elements
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How hard can it be to transport a 20-pound metal cylinder 700 miles in less than seven days? In today’s world, we would order it on Amazon, and it could be on your doorstep in a matter of hours. Now remove roads and railroads from that equation and add extreme temperatures. This was the challenge
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The history of warfare is littered with great kings and armies of men of all ages and origins. Yet, regarding women, history leaves us with few examples. The most famous – Joan of Arc, mythical Amazon warriors, or the Scythian female fighters – are far from being alone. The pages of history, if read carefully,
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The Panic of 1819 is considered the first Great Depression in the US. Along with the Banking Crisis of 1819, it was a nationwide economic crisis that left a lasting imprint on the country. It had its roots in many factors, including the Louisiana Purchase, Westward Expansion, loose bank lending practices, reduced wartime production after
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The encomienda system was a Spanish feudal system prevalent in the 16th century in the Americas. Although it was purported to benefit the Indigenous communities over which it ruled, it was, in essence, very thinly veiled slavery. It led to the Spanish conquistadors amassing land in the colonies and taking advantage of the labor of
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Imagine an institution renaming itself in honor of the boy it once attempted to bar in the name of racial segregation. In the summer of 1959, the Lake City Public Library in South Carolina refused a young 9-year-old boy from checking out books. But the boy wasn’t raised to submit to such harmful societal constructions
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Few Native American tribes have been as instrumental to the history of the United States as the Oneida Tribe. The Oneida Tribe made its mark very early in US history, thanks to its peaceful approach to American settlers and its desire to assimilate into colonial culture. While the Oneida tribe currently has a reservation in
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William Poole, aka Bill the Butcher, was a fierce knife-wielding gang leader in 19th-century New York City. He led the nativist street gang Bowery Boys, went on to rule the criminal underworld, and later got into politics. Bill’s larger-than-life presence was immortalized by actor Daniel Day-Lewis’ fictionalized portrayal of him as William “Bill the Butcher”
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