One year before Pearl Harbor, many Americans thought the United States would never enter World War II. They might have thought otherwise...
The past is a foreign country. Once upon a time I drove up through Maine and across the border into the wilds...
The Ladies of Gray had good reason to despise the Confederacy and its people. The small Maine town sent 200 of its...
In July of 1909, 750 African-American men known as Buffalo soldiers arrived at Fort Ethan Allen in Colchester, Vt., near the small...
Swing bandleader Glenn Miller was born in Iowa, grew up in the Midwest, got famous in New York City, lived in New...
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard thought he was fighting the Civil War to preserve the Union, not to free any slaves. Howard had...