Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War Edwin G. […]
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The Founding Father of American Financial Disaster
How Thomas Jefferson’s hatred of money men spawned an unruly regulatory and banking system […]
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Paradise Found: Manhattan
Landscape ecologists re-create the natural world explorer Henry Hudson encountered when he visited the […]
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Populist Rage
Shays’s Rebellion: The American Revolution’s Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards, University of Pennsylvania, […]
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Robert E. Lee and Slavery
The general’s own words plainly state his view of the Peculiar Institution. As a […]
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Abe’s Southern Routes
Some Virginians claim Lincoln’s greatness arises from his Old Dominion heritage. Abraham Lincoln spent […]
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Fearless Farragut
The Union admiral followed a key tenet: judge the risk by the prize, and risk all if necessary
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Video: Museum’s Artifacts Tell the Story of African Americans in the Army
The National Museum of the United States Army, which is slated to open in […]
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Putting Faces to the Names on the Wall
Education Center to usher in new era of understanding. The names. The roll of […]
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Hidden Heroes: No Quit ‘Rip’ Ford Kept the Yanks in check
In May 1865, with the end of the war nearing, Union troops hoped they had seen the last of Confederate Colonel John Salmon Ford. They weren’t so lucky.