Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...
When Tyler Alexander, who teaches at Champlain Valley Union High School, chanced upon an image of the 1872 painting by Julian ...
On July 17, the Liberty brought two Connecticut-based ships into Newport Harbor, accusing their captains of customs ...
Ed Root was excited. A past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Eastern Pennsylvania, a local group of war-between-the-states history enthusiasts, he had just heard that the man who owned a sword ...
Two-hundred fifty years after a 25-year-old Boston bookseller named Henry Knox dragged 59 cannons up and over t Hills in the ...
Ukrainian energy workers in endless race to repair damage from Russian strikes The attacks have plunged the population into familiar periods of dark and cold and forced energy workers into a grinding ...
By Ross Hetrick December 4, 1865 was a pivotal day in American history when Thaddeus Stevens, with the help of Edward ...