[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...

On July 3, 1863--the third and final day of the Battle of Gettysburg-- a Confederate infantry assault that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge almost broke the Army of Potomac in two.First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cus...

Cartoonist Charles Addams was almost as bizarre as...  ...enduring creation, The Addams Family, reflected American values in a funhouse mirror, showcasing the paran...  ...nstead of a standard coffee table, Addams used a Civil War -era embalming table. He also kept a collectio...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi...  ...ll in California spiked the greatest gold rush in American history. Since then other huge gold deposits had...  ...ppraisal were one U.S. Congressman and two former Civil War generals, including George McClellan, who&rsq...

Text can tell stories, but a picture is worth a th...  ...nam turned the tide of public opinion against the war . Photographs from the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950s and ‘60s serve...  ...uo;60s served the same purpose.Photographs of the civil rights struggle helped ga...

Slate's Vault blog describes a fascinating board g...  ...a fascinating board game made in the midst of the American Civil War . Charlton & Althrop, a publishing house in Ph...  ...xcept with a bit more bloodshed.The game shows an American bald eagle strangling a snake representing Southe...  ...ces sends th...

Earlier this week, John told us about the Camels o...  ...federate Army used quite a few of them during the Civil War . That inspired Neatorama reader Russ Warner to send us some of his neat pictures of the Cedar...  ...enirs by Federal soldiers.[2]Learn more about the *stro...

(Photo via Afflictor)Camels existed in the America...  ...sity of Houston describes the adventures of these American camels:In any case, the Confederate Army captured...  ...ederate Army captured the Texas Camels during the Civil War and used them to move cotton into Mexican po...