Mildred Elizabeth Sisk is better known by this on-air name she used during World War II.
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Daily Quiz for May 2, 2008
This English monarch, the son of Henry III, has been called "the English Justinian" because of his legal reforms, but is usually known as one of the foremost military men of the medieval wor
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It Wasn’t All Gunfights and Massacres; The Old West Had Some Hangings, Too
Featuring ‘Judge Lynch,’ cottonwoods, hemp and even a wooden leg.
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Belva Lockwood: ‘I cannot vote, but can be voted for’
Belva Lockwood was the first woman to become a candidate for the American presidency. Her 1884 campaign stimulated media attention and social controversy.
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Daily Quiz for May 1, 2008
Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first five-and-ten-cent store in 1879 in this city.
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Reimaginining the South
A Southerner learns the skeleton in her family closet wore a coat of Union blue.
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‘A Stupid Old Useless Fool’
William Nelson Pendleton was far more effective behind a pulpit than he was as Robert E. Lee’s chief of artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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Daily Quiz for April 30, 2008
Last Chance Gulch and Alder Gulch were sites of major 1863 gold discoveries in the American West. Each of the sites became a city and each served as capital of the territory that eventually became this state.
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Spirit of New Orleans
Under Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, a force of volunteers and U.S. infantry won a great victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, solidifying American independence and awakening a strong sense of national identity in the young country.
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Daily Quiz for April 29, 2008
This person has been called the "president of the Underground Railroad."