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Is this a photo of a historical reinactment of an 1868 treaty signing?

Where there any 'famous people' in the American Southwest before 1500?

Is it correct to say that primary sources only exist in 'historical times', not in 'pre-history'?

Is this newspaper article describing the Battle of Glorieta Pass?

Were the Spanish conquistadors really motivated by myths like El Dorado?

Was "leather" really a technology introduced by Europeans to the Plains Indians?

Did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo intend for Mexicans to live in the USA but under Mexican law? [closed]

Did the empresario system exist only within Mexican Texas?

What is the correct English terminology to refer to New Mexico and Texas under Spain, then Mexico?

What is a major historical event historians are deeply divided over?

Did US soldiers typically keep an official journal or log during the Civil War era?

Did the territories officially choose a side to support in the American Civil War?

Were crosses frequently used as communication while exploring?

What factors enabled or motivated the Age of Exploration? [closed]

What does "Quivira" refer to? [closed]

Are stories passed down from generation to generation considered primary sources? [closed]

Did the Mexican province of Nuevo Mexico have its own provincial flag?

Why is the term "Ancestral Puebloans" used and not simply "Puebloans"?

What is the name of this song about taking Cherokee land?

How did the conquistadors imagine the "lake of gold" to be like?

Why do all my history books divide Chinese history after the Han dynasty?

When did the US colonies/states stop making their own currencies?

Were the Japanese aware of Desmond Doss's actions?

Why did the Middle Kingdom stop building pyramid tombs?

Is there any resource for showing world territories at different years?

Why was Newton's observation of the falling apple significant?

What motivated Marco Polo to share his trade knowledge?

Did flatbread originate in one place?

Why did Americans give up meat resembling animals? [closed]

How much is known about the Earl of Sandwich's sandwich?