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Mount Rushmore is among the most photographed monuments in the United States: four presidential faces, each roughly 60 feet tall, carved into granite in the Black Hills of South…
The United States is famous as a melting pot, and its food reflects that, drawing on flavors and traditions from around the globe. But amid all that borrowing and blending,…
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Just across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, in what is now southern Illinois, lie the remains of one of the most remarkable and least appreciated places in…
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On a low hill in Elbert County, Georgia, in the rural northeastern corner of the state, there stood for over four decades one of the most enigmatic monuments in…
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Before Jamestown, before Plymouth Rock, before there was any permanent English foothold in what would become the United States, there was Roanoke. In the late 1580s, England made one…
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In October 1869, two workers digging a well behind a barn on a farm in Cardiff, in upstate New York, struck something hard. As they cleared away the earth,…