Wartime Washington dealt brutally with imprisoned suffragists who dared picket the White House for the right to vote in 1917.
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Seneca Falls Convention: First Women’s Rights Convention
More than one hundred and fifty years ago the people attending the first Women’s Rights Convention adopted the radical proposition that ‘all men and women are created equal.’
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Buffalo Bill’s Skirmish At Warbonnet Creek
Three weeks after the disaster at the Little Bighorn, Buffalo Bill claimed he had taken ‘the first scalp for Custer!’ And soon the famous scout was doing it all over again on the stage.
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Last Ditch Rebel Stand at Petersburg
After nearly 10 months of trench warfare, Confederate resistance at Petersburg, Va., suddenly collapsed. Desperate to save his army, Robert E. Lee called on his soldiers for one last miracle.
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Battle of Boydton Plank Road: Major General Winfield Scott Hancock Strikes the Southside Railroad
With Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia stubbornlyclinging to Petersburg, Ulysses S. Grant decided to cut its vital rail lines. To perform the surgery, he selected one of the North’s proven heroes — Major General Winfield Scott Hancock.
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America’s Civil War: The South’s Feuding Generals
It sometimes seemed that Southern generals were more interested in fighting each other than in fighting Yankees. Their inability to get along together contributed greatly to the South’s demise.
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An Englishman’s Journey Through the Confederacy During America’s Civil War
Suave, gentlemanly Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards picked an unusual vacation spot: the Civil War-torn United States.
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USS Constellation: Union Man-of-War in the American Civil War
Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war.
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Cold War: Bay of Pigs Invasion
As the Cuban T-33 jet strafed the insurgents on the beach, a U.S. carrier plane closed to shoot it down. ‘Don’t fire! Don’t fire!’ cried the carrier’s air controller. ‘Rules of engagement have been changed.’
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Espionage in Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome is remembered as one of the greatest military powers in history, its fame derived from the fearsome reputation of the empire’s legionnaires. Lost in the telling, however, is the important role that espionage played in Rome’s ascent to empire.