Frustrated by his own country’s neutrality in the early years of World War I, Arthur Guy Empey traveled to London and enlisted in the British Army. Soon he was in the trenches on the Western Front
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Insight: Absent Without Leave
Were confederate deserters really losing the will to fight? Historians examining Confederate defeat often […]
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Daily Quiz for January 2, 2018
This architect won the 1792 contest to design the White House.
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Daily Quiz for January 1, 2017
Edgar Rice Burroughs created this classic character in 1912.
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Daily Quiz for December 31, 2017
This twentieth century U.S. president is the only one to have been an Eagle Scout.
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Daily Quiz for December 30, 2017
In 1923, Frederick Stanley Mockford of London established this universal distress signal.
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Daily Quiz for December 29, 2017
Among the hundreds buried in Westminster Abbey are thirteen kings and this many queens.
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Ural on URLs: The Becker Collection
http://idesweb.bc.edu/becker/ http://www.firsthandexhibit.org/ The inspiration behind “The Becker Collection” Web site is Sheila Gallagher, but […]
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CWT Book Review: Fire in the Cane Field
Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861-January […]
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CWT Book Review: The Civil War
The Civil War: A Military History by John Keegan, Alfred A. Knopf Disappointment is […]