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Johnny Appleseed is known to all American schoolchildren as a mythological pioneer who headed west planting apple trees. How much of the legend is based in fact?

The Prairie Schooner was the first choice for long-distance family travel across the American prairies in the 1800s.

As a shipping magnet and community leader, Paul Cuffee helped influence American colonial perspectives on how people of color should be accepted and treated in society.

It may have been Col. Thomas Fitch's shabbily dressed troops who inspired a British Army surgeon to write the derisive "Yankee Doodle".

Richard Louv's updated 'Last Child in the Woods' teaches parents how to reconnect children and nature and save generations from nature-deficit disorder.

The small fishing and farming town of Coupeville is known as the home of Ebey's Landing, a symbol of Northwest homesteading history and West Coast ecological beauty.

Brief biography of American writer Edna Ferber, famous for Show Boat, So Big and Giant.

Human beings have eaten each other throughout history for a variety of different cultural, criminal, religious and philosophical reasons not always with evil intent.

Overstatement is a favorite tool of everyone, not just limited to writers and artists. While the impulse to exaggerate is world-wide, overstatement is typically American.

The Frazier International History Museum is an excellent resource for military history, especially for English and American history, while entertaining the whole family.

Egan delivers an intimate view of the Dust Bowl, presenting the struggles of the those trying to survive the greatest environmental disaster in American history.

The moderate summer temperature and historic lighthouses make the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore a historic and interesting vacation destination.

A list taken by a postcard book, "Women Who Dared," revisits brave women from all walks of life who made a positive difference in the lives of women and men.

The relentless European push across America eradicated hundreds of cultures. Native resistance led to war. In the lower Ohio Valley, in 1773, it led to Dunmore's War.

Since the 1700s, Schooner sailing vessels have been used for a variety of purposes because they are fast, sleek, adaptable, and considered the sturdiest ships of all time

Immigrants and pioneers came from vastly different cultures to settle in Wisconsin and pursue the American dream. Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, WI recreates their stories.

The gathering of the harvest has been celebrated for centuries around the world in the form of harvest festivals or by giving thanks at Thanksgiving celebrations.