The 1838 Battle of Battle Creek, Texas, also known as the Surveyors’ Fight, pitted a surveying party comprised of veterans of the Texas Revolution against a Kickapoo war band.
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Texas Artist Don Yena Captures the Cattle Business the Way It Was
Donald M. Yena’s 3×5-foot oil painting “Texas Trails to Rail Trails” is one of several the Texas artist plans to create depicting the Texas cattle business. His “narrative style of painting” stresses historical accuracy.
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Did John Wesley Hardin Face Down Wild Bill Hickok?
Legend has it the two famous gunfighters confronted each other in Abilene—a Western dream showdown!
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Daily Quiz for October 14, 2008
He ran for president five separate times as a Socialist candidate from 1900 to 1920–twice earning close to a million votes.
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Interview: Jason Phillips and Aaron Sheehan-Dean / Diehard Rebels
It’s perfectly feasible to imagine that if the South had successfully left the Union, […]
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The End of the Good War — Germany, April 1945
For the American GIs entering the heart of Germany, April 1945 was a month filled with some of the most brutal fighting of the war, when the horrors of the Nazi regime were finally revealed to the world.
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Daily Quiz for October 13, 2008
One of the principle figures of the French Revolution, this Jacobin dominated the Committee of Public Safety during the “Reign of Terror,” but was overthrown and executed in 1794.
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Daily Quiz for October 12, 2008
Indonesia invaded this former Portuguese colony in 1975 claiming it as its 27th province.
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Daily Quiz for October 11, 2008
This was the name of the most popular smoothbore artillery piece employed in the American Civil War.
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Daily Quiz for October 10, 2008
This pioneer aviator flew to London in 1930–becoming the first pilot to cross the North Atlantic outside the summer season.