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American history

American history

collage of baseball artifacts

Penn State Harrisburg symposium looked at how baseball reflects American history

Bill Blair

New endowment honors outgoing director of Richards Civil War Era Center

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Andrew Schocket to talk politics and American Revolution at New Kensington

Carol Reardon

Penn State laureate and Civil War historian to speak at Penn State Shenango

Carol Reardon

Penn State laureate speaks on history versus heritage at Penn State Abington

Carol Reardon Penn State Laureate

University laureate to visit Penn State Lehigh Valley

Jeff Davis/Robert E. Lee

Historian explores how Civil War Northerners reconciled treason with leniency

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How Pennsylvania farm buildings tell the state's agricultural history

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Behrend Concert Band performance to highlight historical 'Turning Points'

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Campus launches new Six @ Seven community lecture series

Lincoln Memorial superimposed with American flag, half exposed

Lincoln seized moment to unify as he delivered Gettysburg Address

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Journal of an Era

"Discovery of Nat Turner," wood engraving illustrating Benjamin Phipps's capture of Nat Turner on October 30, 1831

Faculty Spotlight: Anthony Kaye

Montage of graduate studies at Civil War Research Center

Richards Center trains next generation of Civil War scholars

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Lack of common strategy may have caused longer, bloodier Civil War

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