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Near Natchez some Indians come aboard the Roosevelt’s barge and demand whiskey. Sick fever strikes those aboard, and the barge nearly sinks.

Though not as famous as the National Road, the Natcheze Trace was vital to the farmers and trademen in the early nineteenth century

In the list of the deadliest tornadoes in America, here are the top five twisters which are ranked according to the number of deaths.

Scholars have long wondered if Lewis was a victim of foul play, or if he committed suicide. In 2009, the 200th anniversary of his death, the debate intensified.

Crippled by a surveyor's stake as a yearling, Assault showed tenacity on the track, surprising his trainer, Max Hirsch, on the way to a Triple Crown title.

An alligator makes repeated visits to the Roosevelt's barge. A French Catholic couple robs them of their sleep.

John James Audubon moves to Kentucky but lands in debtors' prison. He travels to Natchez and New Orleans.

Lydia Roosevelt survives the devastating destruction caused by the New Madrid Earthquake. The steamboat New Orleans reaches New Orleans.

Meriwether Lewis is justly famous for leading the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific Ocean. But Lewis the man is harder to reach. He also had a mysterious death.

The Roosevelts spend three bad nights in a Baton Rouge barroom before reaching New Orleans. Fulton and Livingston design them a steamboat.

Biography of François René Chateaubriand, influential French writer famous for Memoirs from Beyond the Grave. Founder of French Romanticism.

A businessman and a British actress who married a southern planter and observed the institution of slavery in the U.S. wrote about what they saw. Both were born in 1809.

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Some interesting facts about the First Lady of the Confederacy, Varina Howell Davis...from her early days in Mississippi to her last years in New York City.

In the 18th century Ohio frontier Ludwig "Lewis" Wetzel served as the boogeyman of the forests on his one-man revenge-fueled warpath

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Jefferson Davis' first wife dies shortly after their marriage. Some years later, he marries teenaged Varina Howell.

Lydia Roosevelt’s husband wants to take a steamboat all the way from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. Although pregnant, Lydia is determined to go also.

Twenty-seven volumes of Civil War records published from 1865 to 1871 became so rare that these burial records were reprinted in the 1990s.

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The capture and occupation of New Orleans closed the Mississippi River to trade and shut down the prosperous cotton exports to Europe while fueling Northern morale.

The Roosevelts take the New Orleans over the Falls of the Ohio. A strange shaking of the earth is felt by country-folk.

At Harvard, just before the American Revolution, rules were strict and students, of course, broke them. One student, expelled for assault and a sexual romp, did well.

Tips and suggestions for teaching the cultural diversity and sophistication of Native American groups in the Social Studies or History classroom.

The Weeden Island Culture, which existed more than a thousand years ago, is considered to mark the cultural climax of Florida's prehistoric Gulf Coast region.

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