The Treaty of Trianon forced this country to give up three-fourths of its territory.
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Fighting Words: From Davy Jones’s Locker
Many nautical terms have entered everyday language, some from merchant shipping and others from military naval parlance. Christine Ammer examines some common expressions and their nautical origins.
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Daily Quiz for February 9, 2009
American-born poet Ezra Pound was found to be mentally unfit to stand trial after being charged with this crime.
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Daily Quiz for February 8, 2009
In 1820, he wrote of slavery: “We have a wolf by the ears and can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.”
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Daily Quiz for February 7, 2009
Labor leader and first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers, was employed in this trade.
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Fighting Dick and his Fighting Men
On a bleak hillside overlooking the battleground of Sailor’s Creek, General Robert E. Lee […]
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Daily Quiz for February 6, 2009
American telegraph pioneer Samuel F. B. Morse, in addition to being an inventor, was also accomplished as this.
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Letter from American History
Did Thomas Jefferson’s deep distrust of banks wreck our American
Dream?
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The British Marksman Who Refused to Shoot George Washington
George Washington’s life may have been spared at the Battle of Brandywine by a British marksman who placed honor before glory.
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Daily Quiz for February 5, 2009
Nebraska was admitted to the Union as the 37th state in this year.