Edison was a genius, but a bright young Englishman, Samuel Insull, made him rich.
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Daily Quiz for December 13, 2017
US Postal Service official discontinued this as a separate service in 1995.
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Brigadier General John Gibbon’s Brief Breach During the Battle of Fredericksburg
Much has been written about the ill-starred soldiers of the Army of the Potomac […]
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All or Nothin’: The surrender Sherman and Johnston crafted at Bennett Place
The surrender Sherman and Johnston crafted at Bennett Place was monumental. It very nearly never happened.
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BENNETT PLACE SURRENDER AGREEMENTS
Terms of a military convention at Bennett’s house, near Durham’s Station, N.C., between General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General William T. Sherman.
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F-104C Starfighter: “The Missile With a Man in It”
In December 1951, after Lockheed Corp. aircraft designer Clarence “Kelly” Johnson returned from meetings […]
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Poetry | The Fallen Volunteer
A collection of Sorley’s poetry, Marlborough and Other Poems, was published posthumously in 1916. His last poem was discovered in his kit bag after his death.
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Mangled by a Shell: A tattered photograph tells a grim story
A year after his regiment’s ill-fated charge at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, Oliver Dart Jr. faced another great trial, sitting for a photograph at a studio on Main Street in Hartford, Conn.
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Daily Quiz for December 12, 2017
In 1929 this American company signed a deal to manufacture cars in the Soviet Union.
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The Sky’s Their Canvas: The Lost Art of Skywriting
Long before the advent of social media, skywriters created ephemeral messages writ large in […]