September 2013

Civil War

Battle of Chickamauga

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga, the greatest Confederate victory in the west, during the Civil

Civil War

John Brown’s Rifle

John Brown’s Rifle This Sharps rifle, one of two on display in the Smithsonian History Museum in Washington, DC, was

Colonization

Captain John Smith

Captain John Smith The water front of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English speaking settlement in the New World, is