October 03, 2025
The Fargo-Moorhead Visitors Center started the “Best for Last Club” after noticing that many guests were trying to visit every U.S. state and frequently made North Dakota their 50th. There are over 7,000 members. (Making North Dakota your last Lower 48 state doesn’t count, so don’t even try it.)
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How the Border Between the United States and Mexico Was Established
Despite the acceptance by many Americans in the 1840s of the concept of Manifest Destiny—that it was the providential right of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean—the future boundary between the United States and Mexico was anything but a foregone conclusion. Great Britain, with whom
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