During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...
What better way to ring in the New Year than with Revere bells – especially since Paul Revere was born on Jan....
Isaac Bissell electrified the colonies of Massachusetts and Connecticut with the news of the Battle of Lexington in April 1775. He rode...
You have to wonder what Edith Kermit Carow was feeling at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Alice Hathaway Lee. ...
Of all the colorful exploits of Revolutionary War Gen. Israel Putnam, his escape from the British cavalry in Greenwich, Conn., ranks as...
Gen. Israel Putnam famously left his plow in the ground when he heard about the battle of Lexington and immediately rode the...