LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Daniel Boone's Quaker family had pioneered North Carolina's Yadkin River Valley. The Boone family lived four miles from Mordecai Lincoln, the…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Ben Franklin gave an address at the Constitutional Convention, titled "Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy," June 2, 1787: "Sir, there are two…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... He was one of six founding fathers to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. President Washington appointed him to…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Houthis of Yemen have been in the news for attacking ships in the Red Sea. A little geography is helpful. …
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. …
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address at Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1900. The description…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the 3rd Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist…
Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe. Since they were from "the north,"…
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