Los Angeles wildfires could be the costliest in US history, early estimates say
Economic losses and damage are an estimated $135 billion and $150 billion, the costliest fire event in US history. Hurricane ...
Jimmy Carter was alive for 40% of US history
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to live to be 100 years old — a feat made even more incredible by the fact that he ...
The history of American expansion: When the US tried to annex Canada
As President-elect Donald Trump talks of Canada joining the US, history shows that in its early days, America was ...
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A History of America Through the Lens of Disease and Death
Building the Worlds That Kill Us shows how social, political, and economic order in the U.S. has always favored some, at the ...
From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history
Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation ...
The long history of the United States imagining it could annex Canada
In 1973, the best-selling novel in Canada was called Ultimatum. It opens with Prime Minister Robert Porter — a name almost ...
What fueled the LA wildfires now tearing through some of America's most expensive homes
California is no stranger to wildfires, but the firestorms raging through Los Angeles are different.
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The History of Dueling in America
Surgeons standing at the ready tended Swartwout's wounds. In America, duels were fought by men from all walks of life. But many of America's most important citizens defended their honor on the ...
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A moving border, and the history of a difficult boundary
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