Researchers say British colonization of Australia may have killed millions after smallpox arrived with the First Fleet ...
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From smallpox eradication to COVID vaccines, explore the most significant vaccine breakthroughs in the U.S. over 250 years of ...
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Clive Davis, the legendary music executive who helped launch the careers of some of the industry's biggest stars, was among ...
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More than 40 Continental soldiers finally laid to rest with military honors in New York earlier this year were likely members of the First Pennsylvania Battalion during the ...
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A John Carter Brown Library exhibition explores events and milestones of 1776, from the signing of the Declaration of ...
As Massachusetts prepares to mark America’s 250th anniversary, the state of firsts faces a familiar question: Is it still ...
The soldiers were originally buried in a "Poor and Strangers Burial Ground" and moved to their current location in the 1850s. A marker with the names of the identified soldiers will be placed at the ...