During the long struggle to abolish slavery in America, Edward Fitch did not hold political office. Nor did he serve as an...
Before the Civil War broke out, a military fashion craze from North Africa took hold of the United States. Men, women and...
John Leslie Breck was a gifted artist on the verge of fame when he took his own life at the age of...
In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, Gen. George Marshall reads a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to a Boston widow who...
That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
Abraham Lincoln, the Great Unifier, didn’t talk much about his Puritan ancestors. Nor did he talk much about his ancestors from Virginia,...