By Stacy Ferguson The American Revolution was a crucible that forged timeless leaders from ordinary men. We love to read about, study, analyze, and debate about the men who were born into affluence and influence—Washington, Hancock, and Lafayette, amongst others, […]
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October 22, 2024 by Taylor Carr-Howard Our 2023 John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship winner, Taylor Carr-Howard, provides an update from the field. As the 2023 recipient of the John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship, I traveled to Morocco, France, and Tunisia
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Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations inside the memory array, researchers reported Oct. 23 in the journal Nature
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At the end of October, a trim and smiling Joe Biden, no longer the Democratic candidate but still the President, delivered some pizzas to a few dozen phone-bankers at a union hall in western Pennsylvania. It was exactly the sort
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1. Cody Family Moves to Kansas Will was born in Iowa Territory in 1846. In 1854 father Isaac moved the family to Kansas Territory in search of a better life. There young Will watched a wagon train embarking on the Oregon
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One of the sandstone statues recently discovered at Angkor Thom’s Royal Palace Phouk Chea, Yi Sotha and the excavation team During a recent excavation, a team of archaeologists searching the structure of Angkor Thom’s iconic Royal Palace in Cambodia for
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Franklin, Benjamin 70 PA Hopkins, Stephen 69 RI Hart, John 65 NJ Lewis, Francis 63 NY Thornton, Matthew 62 NH Livingston, Philip 60 NY Taylor, George 60 PA Smith, James 57 PA Sherman, Roger 55 CT Adams, Samuel 53 MA
October 25, 2024 An update from our 2023 Olivia James Travelling Fellowship winner, Sarah Hilker: The Olivia James Travelling Fellowship enabled me to spend the 2023-2024 year in Greece, where I began and made substantial progress on a new project,
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