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Photo of Samuel Morse's patent drawing of his telegraph design.

A Personal Tragedy Inspires the First Instant Messaging

by Melissa A. Winn8/22/20238/1/2023
Riot at Lovejoy warehouse

With the Civil War Looming, National Newspapers Struggled to Defend the Power of the Press

by Stefan Lund8/21/20237/31/2023
Gold Hill, Nevada

Not Even the Tragic 1869 Yellow Jacket Mine Fire Could Kill Gold Hill, Nevada

by Carolyn Grattan Eichin8/18/20236/8/2023
John Nicolay and John Hay with President Lincoln

Why Did Lincoln’s Right-Hand Men Call Him the ‘Tycoon’?

by Gary W. Gallagher8/17/20238/17/2023
Danny Michael

What’s It Like to Curate a World-Class Firearms Museum?

by Johnny D. Boggs8/14/20238/14/2023
Sketch of Battery G, 1st Rhode Island Light Artillery

Charging in the Dark, the Gallant Attack of These Gunners Led to the Breakthrough at Petersburg

by Robert Grandchamp8/14/20238/14/2023
Painting of Napoléon at the battle of Friedland.

In 1807 a French Officer Field-Tested an Artillery Tactic That Remained Decisive for More Than a Century

by Thomas Zacharis8/11/20237/24/2023
View of Wrangell, Alaska

Wyatt Earp May Have Met His Match in Con Man Soapy Smith’s Alaska

by Mike Coppock8/11/20236/8/2023
Soldiers on Burnside Bridge

Interview: D. Scott Hartwig / An Epic Study of America’s Bloodiest Day—Decades in the Making

by Christopher Howland8/9/20234/26/2024
1846-prussian-hussar-jacket

How the Hungarian Hussars Started a Fashion Craze

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher8/7/20238/10/2023

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