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Jun 2, 2021 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862. On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, which gave citizens...
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While doing research for my poem, Sleeping on the Train , I discovered another gap in my education-- The Orphan Trains. Between 1854 and 1929, up to 200,000...
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