Update: The mystery of the true author of the prayer has been solved! It was written by Rev Addison Groff…
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/who-burned-atlanta/
The most turbulent contested election in American history may have been that of 1860. Splits in the parties produced four…
The First Crusade, from 1096 – 1099, was a truly remarkable event. Tens of thousands of soldiers, pilgrims and churchmen…
On March 6, 1776, this poem was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, as an advertisement to catch a young servant who had…
The most famous of the Confederate commerce raiders was the CSS Alabama, but it was far from the only one.…
http://westernconservatory.com/articles/looking-plague-eye
In the Battle of Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights, Union troops spearheaded by the USCT attacked Confederate entrenchments held by the…
Civil War Reenactment of the Union assault on Fort Harrison. 150 years ago Grant and Lee were deadlocked in the…
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/did-marco-polo-discover-america-180952765/?no-ist