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Arkansas might be known as the Natural State, but it’s also home to a natural language that outsiders just don’t quite get.
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Wikimedia Commons The Barbary Wars America’s young navy faced its first real test when North African pirates started seizing ...
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Wikimedia Commons/Dietmar Rabich The Alcatraz Indian Occupation When fire destroyed San Francisco’s American Indian Center in ...
Wikimedia Commons The Osage Murders Oil made the Osage Nation incredibly wealthy in the early 1920s, but wealth brought death ...
Wikimedia Commons/Charles Bird King How Cherokee Leader Sequoyah Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee ...
Wikimedia Commons/Caroline Weldon Caroline Weldon, doomed savior of Sitting Bull Most people have never heard of Caroline ...
Wikimedia Commons/Florida Memory St. Augustine, America’s First Permanent European Settlement Spain had bombed out six times ...
Wikimedia Commons/W.W. Rice at the American Banknote Company for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing John Billington, the ...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...