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Bob Cerullo
Dr. Mitchell's Map: One of America's Most Important Maps
When British and American diplomats met to draw the definitive boundary between the United States and Canada, they relied upon Mitchell's map to set the borders of a new nation, thus creating the concept of an independent United States of America. more
Robert Carter III: Virginia's First Emancipator and his Deed of Gift
Describing Robert Carter III as a “councillor” is a grand irony. It is like describing President Abraham Lincoln as a country lawyer, Thomas Jefferson as a writer, or George Washington as a surveyor. more
Buffalo Soldiers of Westmoreland County
“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S. ..., there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” -- Frederick Douglass more
