An alliance of the Confederacy’s eastern and western armies earned a bloody triumph at the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga.
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Daily Quiz for August 20, 2009
In 1818 and 1828 Yale University had to shut down temporarily due to student revolts over this issue.
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Daily Quiz for August 19, 2009
The Civil War Battle of Doctor’s Creek is better known by this name.
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Lincoln Gets Buzzed
Looking notably robust near his 56th birthday, Abraham Lincoln sat for this portrait by an unknown photographer around February 1865.
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HistoryNetShop Summer 2009 Catalog
Check out the new HistoryNetShop Summer 2009 Catalog.
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9th Massachusetts Battery
This monument marks the 9th Massachusetts Battery’s initial position along the Wheatfield Road at […]
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Hanging Captain Gordon
Nathaniel Gordon was the only American sent to the gallows for slave traiding.
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Lincoln or Bust
Abraham Lincoln posed for several famous photographs at Alexander Gardner’s Washington, D.C., gallery on […]
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Daily Quiz for August 18, 2009
After becoming a naval hero in the American Revolution, John Paul Jones,"Father of the U.S. Navy," later found work under this European leader.
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Daily Quiz for August 17, 2009
He was the only U.S. general killed during the Plains Indian Wars – ironically, during a peace conference.