Driven north during the great trail drives of the 1860’s-1880’s, Longhorn cattle remain symbols of the Old West.
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Picture of the Day: December 31
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator On January 1, 1831, 24-year-old reformer William Lloyd […]
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Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Breitenfeld
King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden arrived too late to save Magdeburg, but at Breitenfeld he changed the course of the Thirty Years’ War—and the state of the military art.
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Picture of the Day: December 30
Civil War Photography Alexander Gardner probably took this chilling photograph of Confederate dead awaiting […]
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Picture of the Day: December 28
Union battery wagon This Union battery wagon?an ambulance converted to transport heavy telegraph batteries? […]
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Picture of the Day: December 29
Wounded Knee Massacre Seventy-year-old Sioux chief Big Foot was killed by the 7th U.S. […]
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
In 1954, the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell to the Viet Minh, in one of the 20th century’s most decisive battles.
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Picture of the Day: December 27
Louis Pasteur French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822. […]
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U.S. Marine Tom Smith’s Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War
Mortarmen do one thing in the infantry better than anyone else. They hump equipment–carrying heavy loads everywhere riflemen go.
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Picture of the Day: December 26
Clara Barton The founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was born in […]