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Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2018 Abroe-Carter Award Winner: David Niekum Recently, the American Battlefield Trust had a conversation with Dave Niekum, a teacher at Avella...	Rev War The Adams of Massachusetts By: Adam E. Zielinski The story of the Adams family is the stuff of American legend, rightfully so...	War of 1812 10 Facts: The War of 1812 Fact #1: The war was fought between Great Britain and the United States from 1812-1815. The War of...	Rev War Shot Heard 'Round the World “Will you let them burn the town down?” Asked Joseph Hosmer, a resident of Concord, Massachusetts,...
Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2017 Abroe-Carter Award winner: David Wege Recently we had a conversation with David Wege a teacher Waucosta Lutheran Grade School in...	Compromise of 1850 B y the 1840s America was quickly becoming a “ house divided .” The issue of slavery and its...	Civil War Uncle Tom's Cabin When Harriet Beecher Stowe met with President Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1862, he...	Rev War Pleistocene Park Tens of thousands of years before the American Revolution, an animal died in what is now Greenbrier...
Rev War John Glover and the Marblehead Men of Massachusetts Few regiments in the Continental Army have been given such attention as that of the 14th...	Rev War Morristown Winter Encampment W hile the Continental Army’s encampment at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778 is one of the...	Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2004 Teacher of the Year: Bob Rinehart Recently, the American Battlefield Trust had a conversation with Bob Rinehart, a teacher at...	Interview with the American Battlefield Trust's 2018 Teacher of the Year: Tyler Madison The American Battlefield Trust recently had a conversation with Tyler Madison, an eighth-grade...
Interview with American Battlefield Trust's 2016 Teacher of the Year: Phil Caskey Recently, the American Battlefield Trust had a conversation with Phil Caskey, a teacher at...	Rev War John Stark’s Northern Victory By: Adam E. Zielinski The British strategy for winning the war at the outset of the rebellion in...	A Numerical Sketch of the War of 1812 The War of 1812 wasn’t just a war of conflicting interests — it was a clash of worldviews and...	Rev War The Battle of Blue Licks Despite the capitulation of Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British army to Gen. George Washington at...