The headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow haunts the American imagination each autumn.New York City native Washington Irving breathed life into the galloping g .
A historian, Jean Fagan Yellin, spent six years of sleuthing to reveal that what had been presumed to be a 19th-century white author’s fictional account of a young woman’s life as a slave in the American South was, in fact, written by a formerly enslaved woman.
By Shawn McWha For thousands of years the waterway that we have come to know as the Ottawa River served as a major transportation artery for the First Nations people who moved into the region following the retreat of the glaciers about 10,500 years ago. It was, however, only a little more than 400 years…
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