400 years ago today the Indian Pocahontas married John Rolfe of Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the…
This map tracks the change the the mean center of population in the US - the point in the middle…
Stephen Douglas was one of the most important politicians during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Today…
http://allthingsliberty.com/2014/03/favorite-quote/
For years this photograph languished in the National Archives, part of their collection of the works of Matthew Brady, the…
The story of the prisons of the Civil War is a very sad one. Thousands of men died from disease…
http://spotsylvaniacw.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-view-in-petersburg-fort-davis-then.html
150 years ago the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was beginning to fill with Union prisoners. This photograph was taken…
Many words have been written about the religion of George Washington from his lifetime up to the present. One interesting…
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fbi-has-file-john-wilkes-booth-180949855/