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Don Your Buckskin Suit - The Exhibition. Letters From Custer and His Soldiers: Marking 150 Years Since the Battle of Little Bighorn
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Thomas Edison: "I am busily engaged on the electric light." Image: Thomas Alva Edison. Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons.
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Jewish Soldiers
The Shapell Roster of Jewish Service in the American Civil War is an ongoing reappraisal of the military service of Jews who served in the Union and Confederate Armies and Navies from 1861 – 1865. In addition to the research database documenting the servicemen's military and personal...
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The Foundation’s focus is on the histories of the United States and the Holy Land, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Its extensive holdings range from American presidents – especially Abraham Lincoln – to diverse figures such as Mark Twain; Albert Einstein; Theodor Herzl; and even to George Custer and the Little Big Horn.