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There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.
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Witness how childhood boredom escalated into the mass hysteria that led to the Salem Witch Trials.
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The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.
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Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.
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George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.
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Benjamin Franklin was inquisitive but never crazy enough to fly a kite in an electrical storm as is often depicted.
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The negative characterization of Edgar Allan Poe as a paranoid drug addict with the darkest of minds can be traced back to one man who was a rival of Poe's. There is no proof of drugs and his "darkness" is only inferred because of the scary stori ...
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While Edison is surely one of our greatest inventors, his greatest contribution may have been perfecting existing inventions instead of creating that many new ones.
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There are many common misperceptions about Hoover and FDR as political foes and as lawmakers.
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Common perception is that the Lincoln and JFK assassinations have many parallels, but not so many when fact is separated from fiction.
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Route 66 is the most famous road built in America except it was actually made by connecting existing major highways together. And it was constantly mutating.
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Halloween in the early-to-mid-20th century was not a sweet nor pleasant holiday, but an excuse for pranks and general mischief.
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Was President John F. Kennedy really interested in going to space? And how close we were to not being the first to get on the moon?
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Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.
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Some of the most noteworthy photographers from the Civil War would move bodies around on the battlefield in order to achieve dramatic effect.
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Incredibly enough the mayor of New York City, Fernando Wood, suggested in 1861 that New York City secede and declare itself a free city because of its lucrative ties to the cotton industry.
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