In 1860, New York City seriously considered leavin...  ...to secede from the Union was stopped short by the Civil War , but the rift between city and state continued fo...

In 1862, John Gilleland was a 53-year old carpenter in Athens, Georgia. He was too old to serve in the Confederate Army, but he was a private in a home guard unit. Determined to find some way to counteract the Union's ma...

In 1966, when Star Trek first graced our TV screen...  ...Star Trek universe, 2026 was the year that World War III began. This 45-year war led to a loss of 30% of the human population, and...  ...0 plant and animal species. Yes, it was a nuclear war that wiped out many of earth...

In American history classes, we only learn the big...  ...American Eevolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War , and oops, better skip ahead to World War II or the school year will run out. In all these...

You've heard about boys joining the army in the Civil War who were so young that they weren't given weapons...  ...n the US Army. He was twelve years old. After the war , in which Clem was wounded twice and captured onc...  ...retired as a brigadier general in 1915, the last Civil War...

Yukon Cornelius, the great mountain man of the fro...  ...ers a lightsaber -- an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. In Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back he almost dies when ca...

In 1934, two teenagers in Baltimore dug into the d...  ...discovered a literal pot of gold- a cache of pre- Civil War gold coins in a copper pot! The two boys, not ful...

After the American Civil War , there was some attempt to help formerly-enslaved...

As we have noted in the past, President John Tyler...  ...nd defended by African American troops during the Civil War .-via Educatëd Hillbilly

In the late 19th century, con men of all kinds mad...  ...that those incidences were noticed and recorded? Civil War general Edward Powers noticed, and published a bo...