Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
On Jan. 26, 1864, a young man from the Pacific Northwest gave a talk to unmarried girls in Lowell, Mass., about a...
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
Henry Adams during his lifetime was known as a snob and a grouch. He was, after all, an Adams, the grandson and...
In 1830 and 1831, a 12-year-old Maryland slave and a 22-year-old backwoods store clerk picked up the same book – the Columbian...
In 1858, young men from Hartford, Conn., organized bodyguards for Republican candidates campaigning through the streets of the Democratic city. They called...