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In February 1991, in the Iraqi desert near the city of Nasiriyah, 800 U.S. Army tanks faced off against nearly 300 tanks operated by Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard.

In 1836, as the Seminole in Florida battled American forces seeking to evict them from their homeland, a guest at a dinner party in St. Augustine startled the gathering by offering a toast to the Seminole war chief Osceola, “the great untaken and still unconquered red man.”

Just after 2 p.m. on Feb. 28, 2004, the house lights in Minneapolis’ Target Center fell dark. The familiar tune  “Sweet Georgia Brown” filled the arena, while a beam of light shone on the red, white, and blue uniforms of the Harlem Globetrotters as they sprinted onto the court.

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally,” Abraham Lincoln once said.

One hundred sixty years ago, on May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse transmitted a four-word message from the Supreme Court chamber at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to an associate in Balti­more: “What hath God wrought?”

The events of April 23, 1945, will forever live on in my family and as part of the history of one of the most celebrated bomb groups of World War II, the 381st.

About the first thing we learn when we study Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in middle-school English class is that it’s not really about the Salem witch trials.

Recent findings in Jamestown are challenging long-held beliefs about the first permanent English settlement of North America. “We’re not rewriting history, but reading it more correctly—with more truth."

Martin Van Buren, running for re-election to the presidency in 1840, hoped the electorate would judge him on the facts: He was a down-to-earth regular fellow who supported the farmer and the working man.

America’s attitude toward alcohol has always been notable for its extremes. From Benjamin Franklin to Carry Nation, Americans have swung from one excess to another and back again.