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Category: Feature

The Battle of Cowpens: January 17, 1781

by Charles Phillips12/17/20192/20/2024
Photo shows the Davis Family at Beauvoir, Mississippi, in 1884 or 1885 (l to r): Varina Howell Davis Hayes [Webb] (1878-1934), Margaret Davis Hayes, Lucy White Hayes [Young] (1882-1966), Jefferson Davis, unidentified servant, Varina Howell Davis, and Jefferson Davis Hayes (1884-1975), whose name was legally changed to Jefferson Hayes-Davis in 1890.

Living with the Enemy: The Jefferson Davis Family and Their Servants

by Mary Stark12/12/20192/20/2024
Photo of Melvin Vaniman, the first engineer of the hydrogen airship America, after boarding the steamship Trent in October 1910.

Melvin Vaniman: Forgotten Pioneer Aviator

by Adam Rovner12/12/20192/20/2024
Photo of a crowded harbor scene with buildings and ships docked in slips or sailing around the harbor. San Francisco harbor from Telegraph Hill, Calif.

Of Crimes and Shanghaied Sailors

by Steven Wilson12/11/20192/21/2024
A print labeled, To the black hills, or bust.

A Day to Remember: June 25, 1876

by Charles Phillips12/11/20192/21/2024
Photo of Trucks of the Motor Transport Corps which left Washington today on a trans-continental trip to the Pacific Coast. The Start was made from the zero-mile stone at the south front of the White House.

Broader Ribbons Across the Land

by Logan Thomas Snyder12/11/20192/21/2024
Photo of President Abraham Lincoln's hearse, Springfield.

Aftermath of an Assassination

by Jason Emerson12/11/20192/21/2024
Drawing of a group of soldiers, one relaxing in foreground, one stoking a fire, and two putting shoes on horses. (Scene near Tipton, on the Missouri Prairies,) Blacksmithing in the Army.

Alexander Simplot: Civil War Artist

by Edward E. Deckert and Constance R. Cherba12/11/20194/1/2024
Photo of a crowd at Ulysses S. Grant Memorial at U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

The Grant Memorial

by Wyatt Kingseed12/9/20193/31/2024

Balto Saved Nome, Right? Not Quite: Another Dog Did Most of the Work

by Mike Coppock12/9/20192/21/2024

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