DURING THE afternoon of Aug. 16, 1777, the skies finally cleared over the small town of Hoosick, New York after two days of heavy... Read More

In May 1864, Arlington National Cemetery conducted its first military burials. Since then, it has become the final resting place for... Read More

A medieval Teutonic Knight was a member of the Catholic military Deutscher Orden or Teutonic Order, officially founded in March 1198 CE. The... Read More

This list is a response to the one published a couple of days ago with the topic of ’10 great moments’ in American history. A lot... Read More

On Nov. 25, 1863, an 18-year-old Union lieutenant from Wisconsin grabbed the flag of his regiment (the 24th Wisconsin) from an exhausted... Read More

any Americans, left and right, have spent four years trying to understand Donald Trump’s thought processes, so it’s only fitting... Read More

Near the gates of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, a C-130 Hercules sits in National Vigilance Park, on a small sliver... Read More

Travelling always sucks around holidays, and it gets exponentially worse when, I don’t know, a floating bridge sinks. And it happened... Read More

The point at which the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio River (La Belle Riviere to the French) has been known as the... Read More

Tab, the Coca-Cola company’s original diet soda brand, is headed to the soda graveyard, joining retired brands such as Like, Leed and... Read More

On November 24, 1971, a man known only as D.B. Cooper jumped with a parachute from a Boeing 727 into history as the only unsolved airplane... Read More

After their disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19-20, 1863, the surviving troops of the Federal Army of the... Read More

FROM VINCE BUGLIOSI'S BOOK, "RECLAIMING HISTORY": "Are we just left with conjecture to reach a conclusion on the issue of how Ruby entered... Read More

Friday, November 22, 1963, began for Lyndon Johnson in Fort Worth, with the headline he saw on the front page of the Dallas Morning News:... Read More

On this date in 1922, Robert Erskine Childers was shot by the Irish Free State for carrying a gun its founding colossus had gifted him.Many... Read More

Clearly, our conception of the world and our place in it is, at the beginning of the 21st century, drastically different from the zeitgeist... Read More

Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, Mohawk war chief, Loyalist, statesman (born circa March 1742/43 in Cayahoga (near Akron, Ohio); died 24... Read More

Wilt Chamberlain wasn’t just a scoring champion. He topped the rebounding leaderboards, too, and took the league’s crown in 11 of... Read More

Thailand and Cambodia are among the oldest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. The two countries share the same historical roots dating back to the... Read More

The prisoners, hacking their way through insect-infested summer swamps and winter ice fields, brought the road, and the road then brought yet... Read More