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Racism
September 2, 1885 - The Rock Spring, Wyoming mining incident occurs when one hundred and fifty white miners attack Chinese coworkers, killing twenty-eight and forcing several hundred more to leave Rock Springs.
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Historic Site of the Month
Paris 1867 Exposition Universelle
It was the second in the series of Exposition Universelles held in Paris on one hundred and seventy-one acres around the Champ de Mars. French manufactures, responding to the London fair of 1862, formed a holding company to raise funds for the fair, raising two million francs within two years.
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San Francisco Panama Pacific Expo 1915
Take a jaunt around San Francisco's Panama Pacific Expo in vintage video, music written and sung for the fair, plus a John Phillip Souza march played by the U.S. Military Band today and written and conducted by Souza in 1915. There's also commentary by two contemporaries of the exposition and what they thought of the world's fair, one famous writer, Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote the books that spawned the TV series Little House on the Prairie.
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San Pedro Conservation Area
Wander near the border with Mexico in Cochise County, Arizona and you might just find the San Pedro River, waysides about mammoths, old ranches long forgotten, and the San Pedro NCA that tells the story of the land and the history there.
Spotlight on Lesser Known History
Owyhee National Wild & Scenic River
Stretching one hundred and twenty miles across two states, the Owyhee National Wild and Scenic River, with dam, has seen nature making river canyons since the dawn of time, and rafters on rapids and placid river stretches since the times of man.
Timeline of the Month
Timeline 1740s
The French and Indian War begins and the colonists are getting tired of the first acts of rules and taxation without enough representation.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 17, 1961 - The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro.
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Battlefield Preservation
Even in these difficult times, work continues on preserving the battlefields of the Civil War, American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The amazing work of the Battlefields Trust is currently attempting to preserve land at Gaines Mill and Cold Harbor, what some think is the most important land to be preserved at those locations. Check them out.
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