These American World War II Troops Trained to Fight on Skis
Recruits trained in Colorado and Washington and then captured peaks in northern Italy in support of Allied victory.
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How Native Americans Protected Alaska
How Native Americans Protected Alaska During WWII
After Japan invaded the Aleutians, 6,300 Alaska Natives formed the Alaska Territorial Guard to defend against further invasion.
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How Virginia's House of Burgesses Became America's Blueprint for Democracy
America's first elected assembly met in Jamestown in 1619.
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Life in the early 1600s at Jamestown consisted mainly of danger, hardship, disease and death.
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Alexander Hamilton's leadership in the war's last major land battle delivered the future Secretary of the Treasury his long-sought glory.
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