(Photo: US Post Office)In a fascinating article at...  ...out United States fractional currency. During the American Civil War , the Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declari...  ...he Trent Affair almost drew the UK into declaring war on the United States. This would almost certainly...  ...plomats were able...

The 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War is tomorrow. On April 9, 1865, generals Grant and...  ...nder. It was the welcome end of a long and bloody war , but the American government and the Union brass had no desire to p...  .....

The Library of Congress has a special collection o...  ...thousand ambrotypes and tintypes taken during the Civil War . Many of these are portraits of soldiers, but als...  ...Union and Confederate servicemen who died in the American Civil War . For many, these photographs are...

The following is a list from the book Uncle John's...  ...(1885-1972)PISAN CANTOSAt the beginning of World War II, American Ezra Pound lived in Italy and made propaganda rad...  ...ascist leader Benito Mussolini and criticized the American government, the British government, an...

Today, Bernice Madigan died peacefully at her home...  ...1898, JapaneseGertrude Weaver, born July 4, 1898, AmericanJeralean Talley, born May 23, 1899, AmericanSusannah Mushatt-Jones, born July 6 1899, AmericanEmma Morano-Martinuzzi, born November 29, 1899, Italia...  ...ki...

General George S. Patton (1885-1945) was a great American general who led armies to victory in north Africa...  ...Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany during World War II. He had a larger than life personality and was...  ...olas Evan Sarantakes, a professor at the US Naval War...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm-wB4CCZuQ](Video...  ...became famous for his captivating miniseries The Civil War . Through brilliant storytelling, he shared not on...  ...mel Live, Burns recounts a day--this day--that we Americans call Black Friday.It is not a recent experi...

[http://youtu.be/yRZZpk_9k8E] (YouTube link)Texas...  ...re finding this many who don’t know how the Civil War turned out. Honestly, the vice president changes...  ...and young people not coming up with his name. But American students should know who won the *strong c...

For decades, the only thing staving off a worldwid...  ...lectures to the poor. Education, he hoped, would civilize them. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong man to d...  ...tes—Polish, Italian, and Hungarian exiles; American spiritualists; Russian anarchists; British and S...  ...it seemed as if the Red...

Sure, with its sprawling server farms, Google is p...  ...rving the New Web OrderAmazon has changed the way Americans shop, but its most powerful offering doesn&rsquo...  ...s seen in years. Just as the Drudge Report rocked American politics by picking up the Monica Lewinsky scand...  ...as 4chan has grown as...