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Wash. artifacts show history of old fort - Yahoo! News

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Archaeologists are using broken pottery, bullets and buttons found over the past 60 years to piece together the history of a 19th century fort along the Columbia River. Some 2 million artifacts have been dug up at Fort Vancouver, which from 1829 to 1866 served as a hub for fur and mercantile trade and military activity in the West.

History Series: A Freeze Hits US-Soviet Relations After World War Two - VOA News (audio)

The Cold War was a major force in world politics during much of the 20th century. Transcript of radio broadcast: 28 February 2007

‘The Legacy of the Black American Soldier’ - washingtonpost.com

Retired Brig. Gen. Leo A. Brooks Jr. was the featured speaker for a Black History Month ceremony in February at the Library of Congress. In his address, "The Legacy of the Black American Soldier," Brooks paid tribute to the military’s earliest black leaders, such as Henry O. Flipper, the first African American to graduate from West Point; Benjamin O. Davis Sr., the Army’s first black general and Davis’s son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who became a three-star general in the U.S. Air Force.

In this excerpt, Brooks shares some of his journey…

Announcements

Pentagon Channel Offers Special Coverage During Women’s History Month - DefenseLink

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2007 – More than 100 years before the Marine Corps actively recruited women, Lucy Brewer secretly signed up, served on “Old Ironsides,” and fought in some of the bloodiest battles of the War of 1812. That’s just one of many fascinating but little-known facts about women in the military the Pentagon Channel will offer its audience during March’s Women’s History Month.

Civil War Roundtable Hosts Wayne Motts - SOLANCONEWS.com

LANCASTER – Lancaster Civil War Round Table will host Wayne Motts, Military Historian and Licensed Battlefield Guide at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 8th, 2007. This program will take place at the Manheim Township Municipal Building located at 1840 Municipal Drive in Lancaster. Motts is a native of Groveport Ohio where his father is the director of the Motts Military Museum. He graduated from Ohio State University with a Bachelors degree in the field of Military History and earned his Masters degree in American History from the Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Obituaries

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s Legacy - History News Network

He was never elected president of the American Historical Association, a sore subject with many that came up again at the recent Atlanta convention. But Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was without doubt one of the most influential historians of his generation. He was certainly the most famous. He is remembered as a public intellectual, stellar writer, confident liberal, and as the author of seminal books on four presidents–Jackson, FDR, JFK, and Nixon.

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