Vigilante groups have been part of the American landscape since the nation was first settled. Whe...  ...ivided along political lines during and after the Civil War , and the locals in power did not tend to uphold t...  ...te groups are in some way a representation of the *s...

The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...ic Collection of Crooks, Cops, and Capers. If the Americans hadn’t disrespected Canadian borders, we mi...  ...873, after the Cypress Hills Massacre. That year, American wolf trappers in Montana lost a lot of horses to...  ...for a number of reasons...

While the U.S. occupied Japan after World War II, between 30,000 and 50,000 American GIs married Japanese women. To prepare these brid...  .... To prepare these brides for life in the US, the American Red Cross opened "bride schools" starting in 1951...  ...them what they wo...

Brush up on the origins of your favorite eats! 1....  ...practice of popping corn was common among Native Americans : Ancient crumbs have been discovered in Peruvian...  ...ashionable among colonists after they saw Native Americans chomp on the gummy resin of spruce trees. By the...  ...ummy resin of spruce tr...

Neatorama is proud to bring you a guest post from...  ...Mediterranean scenery, please ignore the raging civil war . This eagerness to encourage tourism makes cert...  ...o historically significant sites determined?World War II tourism is a big money-maker. While admission....

What most Americans remember of the Black Panther Party are the stars...  ...world scenarios with the atomic bomb and the Cold War . “Tricky Dick” Nixon got elected duri...  ...n got elected during this period, and the Vietnam War was ongoing. Women who were graduati...

The following article is from the new book Uncle J...  ...ny Bathroom Reader.Here’s a piece of recent American history that most people have never heard of. It...  ...ong as there was a road that went there. For many Americans automobiles did indeed deliver on that promise. B...  ...d indeed deliver on tha...

Robert Smalls was good at what he did, so good tha...  ...d go wrong at any second. Or he could sit out the war and possibly spend the rest of his life as a slav...  ...ube link)Robert Smalls’ escapade during the Civil War is so exciting that it should’ve been made....

Come see us this Saturday JULY 2! We open at 1...  ...life-size dinosaur statues exist in the middle of Civil War battles. Dinosaur Kingdom II in Virginia harkens...  ...at popped up on roadsides between the rise of the American road trip and the construction of the interstate....

What states make up what Americans consider “The South”? It’s not...  ...e in Kentucky, which was a slave state before the Civil War , but stayed with the Union. The people here speak...