Joshua Horn

Francis Drake’s Prayer: Fact or Fiction?

Update: The mystery of the true author of the prayer has been solved! It was written by Rev Addison Groff…

10 years ago

Who Really Burned Atlanta?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/who-burned-atlanta/

10 years ago

The Tumultuous Election 1860

The most turbulent contested election in American history may have been that of 1860. Splits in the parties produced four…

10 years ago

The Election of 1864

http://civilwar150th.blogspot.com/2014/11/election-of-1864.html

10 years ago

Peter Bartholomew – Life and Death of a Fanatical Fraud

The First Crusade, from 1096 – 1099, was a truly remarkable event. Tens of thousands of soldiers, pilgrims and churchmen…

10 years ago

Catching a Runaway with Poetry

On March 6, 1776, this poem was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, as an advertisement to catch a young servant who had…

10 years ago

Cruises and Capture of the CSS Florida

The most famous of the Confederate commerce raiders was the CSS Alabama, but it was far from the only one.…

10 years ago

How one Pastor Quarantined the Black Plague in 17th Century England

http://westernconservatory.com/articles/looking-plague-eye

10 years ago

Siege of Petersburg 150th – Battle of New Market Heights Reenactment

In the Battle of Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights, Union troops spearheaded by the USCT attacked Confederate entrenchments held by the…

10 years ago

Siege of Petersburg 150th – Battle of Fort Harrison Reenactment

Civil War Reenactment of the Union assault on Fort Harrison. 150 years ago Grant and Lee were deadlocked in the…

10 years ago

Did Marco Polo Discover Alaska?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-marco-polo-discover-america-180952765/?no-ist

10 years ago

First Picture of a President

John Quincy Adams in 1843, at the age of 76.

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