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Beer City’s Blue Ribbon Mansion
FREDERICK PABST was captain of a Great Lakes steamer when Maria Best came aboard his ship and caught his attention. He started courting her, the daughter of the owner of Milwaukee’s Phillip Best Beer Company, and they married in 1862. It didn’t take
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Death Became Him… Ever So Briefly
As the president’s body was transported across the continent, Americans gathered in cities and towns, on prairies and hilltops, at train depots and along anonymous stretches of track, to say goodbye. Cowboys on the high plains removed their hats as t
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Revolutionary War Traveling Exhibit to Cross the Nation
IN DECEMBER, the American Battlefield Trust and the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled the new exhibition American Revolution Experience at the DAR Museum in Washington, D.C. This longterm mounting of the exhibit will remain at DAR’s natio

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