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A Brief History of the United States Postal Service

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(via Smithsonian) To forge a nation, the founders needed an efficient communications network

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(via Smithsonian) How Americans celebrated the end of World War II As word of the Japanese surrender spread throughout the

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(via Mental Floss) Even during the worst economic downturn in modern American history, some folks still managed to make a

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(via Mental Floss) The Oregon Trail has been immortalized in pop culture through Western films and the incredibly popular computer

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(via Smithsonian) Peter Lax was just a teenager when he went to Los Alamos to join the team that developed

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(via Smithsonian) When Dwight Eisenhower was president, he traveled in style. Now a team is restoring his airplane to presidential

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(via Smithsonian) Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, American slavery came to an end and a celebration

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(via mental_floss) Memorial Day is much more than just a three-day weekend. Here’s a handy 10-pack of facts to give

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(via Mental Floss) From modest beginnings and Civil War military victories to the United States presidency and tough times in

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(via Smithsonian) The Kennedy administration sought a diverse face to the space program, but for reasons unknown, the pilot was

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(via Smithsonian) The 1980s brought about America’s gym obsession—and a machine that demands a notoriously grueling cardio workout

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(via Atlas Obscura) Dendrochronology doesn’t just work on forests. It works on buildings too.