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The tag for the United States project is now united_states. Use this tag for posts specifically about United States history topics, but use united_states for other posts related to the United States project.
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Slavery in West
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Do you have family history or an interest in Washington State? Join us in the Washington State Project!
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Do you have family history or an interest in Oregon? Join us in the Oregon Project!
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Do you have ancestors in the United States? Join us in the United States Project!
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A "novel marriage" of 1875 California
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Nugent Cavaliers and Pioneers V2 Look-up Request
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Chief Justice Marshall profile needs work
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Eye-witness account of Tulsa Race Massacre aftermath
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Interesting Civil War Nurse
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“Elizabeth Peabody, Always a Bridesmaid…” by the NEHS
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Miss Florence Griswold (1850-1937) “High Thinking and Low Living in Old Lyme” by the NEHS
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Exploring the "Confederate Slave Payrolls" ?
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The 1704 Raid on Deerfield “the Deerfield Massacre”
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MA Revolutionary War veteran and family given "warning" to leave town, 1787
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Connect the Historian: Jacob Ernest Cooke II
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I subscribe to the Legal Genealogist
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Isabella Holmes (Beecher) Hooker (1822 - 1907) “Women's Right to Vote”
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Notable Author Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789 - 1867)
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Where did (U.S.) Revolutionary soldiers get their uniforms?
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Oct 22, 2021
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Civil War Vet Edward Price (1842 - 1915) “Was Guard At…” Dakota War of 1862. “Dakota 38”
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Women brewers in the American colonies
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Senator Jeremiah Jones (Colbath) Wilson (1812 - 1875) Republican and a strong opponent of slavery
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Great Chicago Fire Of 1871
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What is the main driver for the interconnected nature of Acadian families? Was there an abundance of arranged Marriages?
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1870 Census for Franklin Olliff shows a young, black male
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All those 19th-century Indiana death clusters
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Comments on Bernardo de Gálvez
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Who are the parents & origins of Elizabeth Morell Harvey?
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What are relations & origins of both John Anthony Morel of GA & John Morell of VA (on profile from 1/17-5/21)?
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American Revolution Hero Ethan Allen of Connecticut has a mother. She needs some help.
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1777 letter from a Hessian soldier during the American Revolutionary War
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1776
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100th Anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre
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Family Search - early US household members and their ages list ?
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May 20, 2021
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Russell Johnson, of Gilligan's Island fame, is unconnected and orphaned
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James DeWolf (1764 - 1837) NEHS “James DeWolf, the RI Senator Who Murdered a Slave and Got Away With It”
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rhode_island
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Candlemas Day Massacre, York, Maine, 1692
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us_history
york
maine
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Are these two categories representing the same DeWitt Colony?
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Apr 16, 2021
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160th Anniversary of the United States War Between the States Today!
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Category request:Duffy's Cut Massacre
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ireland
immigration
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2
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NEHS “ Abraham Lincoln Responds to the Little People’s Petition From Concord, Mass.”
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massachusetts
slavery
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3
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111
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Help USBH honor Women Scientists and Mathematicians--Black History Month
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Feb 1, 2021
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african_american
black_heritage
black_history
notables
us_history
profile_improvement
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2
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Help USBH honor Spingarn Medalists during Black History Month
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Feb 1, 2021
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african_american
black_heritage
black_history
profile_improvement
us_history
notables
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Help USBH honor "firsts" on the first week of Black History Month
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Jan 31, 2021
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african_american
us_history
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black_history
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profile_improvement
+9
votes
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Do you want to help with the ancestry of the current US Vice President?
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Jan 17, 2021
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harris
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presidents
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