The spring of 1778 brought renewed hope to American colonists who were struggling for freedom against the world-class British army...
As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, we wonder: Could the whole thing have been avoided? And could it happen again?
You arrive today by car, perhaps sipping water from a plastic bottle, comfortable in your air conditioning, sunglasses and visor shading your eyes from a Southern sun...
The days that followed Abraham Lincoln’s election were filled with secession fever across the states of the Deep South. Conventions were called. Commissioners were appointed...
In 1835 Daniel Parker introduced a bill into the Texas Congress calling for 600 men to patrol Texas’ frontiers...
I can still remember the first time I saw the scar. It almost looked as if the flesh had been gouged out with an ice cream scoop.
In the first blush of the Civil War, citizens of both North and South were puffed up with pride and patriotism, bursting with a boisterous bravado. Their surging emotions found an outlet in a now forgotten form of personal expression: illustrated envelopes.
Radio bulletins reporting a White House press conference held at 1 a.m. on April 11, 1951, had reached Tokyo while Gen. Douglas MacArthur was hosting a lunch at the U.S. Embassy.
“The scene was dreadful beyond the reach of language.” This is how John Paul Jones described the unspeakable condition of his ship Bonhomme Richard after more than two brutal hours of close combat with the British warship Serapis.
Brilliant and eccentric, Stonewall Jackson’s tactics were to ‘mystify, mislead, and surprise.’