Legally a slave, Julia Chinn, actually lived as the wife of this 19th century politician.
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Daily Quiz for August 5, 2018
Father Suitbert G. Mollinger dedicated a chapel in this city on June 13, 1883 containing thousands of religious relics he had collected.
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Daily Quiz for August 4, 2018
The two U.S. federal Hoover Commissions were established by Congress in 1947 and 1953 to study and recommend this.
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Germany’s Sea Eagle
In late 1916 a German naval adventurer slipped the British blockade aboard a three-masted windjammer to raid like the pirates of old
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Daily Quiz for August 3, 2018
The subject of a 1949 feature film, Monty Stratton made a comeback in this sport after having his right leg amputated.
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MHQ Book Review: War and Peace in the Ancient World
War and Peace in the Ancient World Kurt A. Raaflaub (editor), (Blackwell Publishing, 2007), […]
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MHQ Book Review: Retribution
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-1945 Max Hastings, (Random House, 2008), 656 pages, $35. […]
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Confederate Cavalryman in the Wilderness
Unaware of the titanic clashes around him, this Civil War soldier followed orders but […]
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Garibaldi’s Panoramic Exploits
Before photography, people flocked to panoramas to gaze at far-flung scenes painted on huge […]
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How the Allies Won World War II
Productive factories provided abundant materiel, but the ability of individual soldiers to adapt made […]