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The 18,200-square-foot "Price of Freedom" exhibition, scheduled to open this Veterans Day, Nov. 11, will survey the history of America's military from the colonial times to the present, exploring ways that wars have been defining episodes in American history. Through hundreds of artifacts and pictures, "The Price of Freedom" will tell the stories of how Americans have fought to establish the nation's independence, determine its borders, shape its values of freedom and opportunity and define its leading role in world affairs. The Huey helicopter will be the largest single artifact in the exhibition.
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In January 2000, the full text of current issues of the Journal of American History became available online for the first time at the History Cooperative. Access to journal content is limited to individual members of the Organization of American Historians and to institutions that subscribe to the print version of the Journal.
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The American Evolution: A History through Art is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Corcoran curators of the exhibition are Emily Shapiro, Assistant Curator of American Art and Sarah Newman, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art (see Curator Bios).
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Should Byrd be defeated, history would lose its most vocal and most important spokesman and appropriator for American history programs. For example, the Education Department’s “Teaching American History” initiative, which to date has received over a half-billion dollars, owes its funding directly to Byrd’s commitment and support. Byrd’s future is in the hands of West Virginia voters.
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Because the Native American censuses were taken so often, they are among the best censuses worldwide for tracing family history. The U.S. federal census is taken only once every ten years. In addition, because Native Americans were not granted full U.S. citizenship until 1924, the U.S. federal censuses before 1930 are sporadic at best for counting Native Americans. The yearly counts and updates reflected in the Indian censuses offer Native American family historians a more complete and accurate picture of their ancestors than the federal census.
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REF E174.D52 Dictionary of American History This multi-volume set has a very good entry under "Education" in Volume 2 and an entry on "integration" in Volume 3. Major legal decisions are listed alphabetically by title, ex. Brown v. the Board in Volume 1.
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