Phantom limb pain is one of those mysterious sensa...  ...n seems today imagine how it was perceived when a Civil War doctor named Silas Weir Mitchell proved his patie...  ...ected as impossible to treat. When his specialty ward in Philadelphia filled up, the Army Medical Depar...  ...ostly pain that lingered i...

What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorro...  ...ould witness great economic expansion. During the Civil War , they coined skedaddle as a mocking description o...  ...levity in dark times.Born around the upheavals of war , the Missionary Generation (born 1860 to 1882) be...  ...ion (born 1883 to 1900) h...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ...1640s, jolly old England was caught up in a messy civil war between King Charles I and the British parliament...  ...g any active service—even while the English Civil War raged around him. In 1649, his run of good luck c...  ...l 1943 when, disillus...

They say history is written by the victors, but th...  ...shows up most obviously in how the history of our Civil War is taught. If you are of a certain age, what you...  ...nd left effects we still feel 150 years after the war .

September 29 is National Coffee Day! How should yo...  ...age's history, like the role coffee played in the Civil War and the story behind Starbucks. There are a few c...

Is there a haunted hotel in your hometown? Histori...  ...e Marshall House used to be a hospital during the Civil War and then a medical ward during yellow fever epidemics. Rumors such as fau...

In 1871, Ōyama Sutematsu was sent to the United S...  ...f opening up and modernizing Japan after a bloody civil war . A few years later, she became the first Japanese...

The following article is reprinted from the book T...  ...friend who live in Germany after the end of World War II. The critics praised it, but it didn’t s...  ...know that we have George Lucas to thank for Star Wars . We can thank him for The Godfather, too. In Nove...  ...an was interested, and names lik...

The following article is from the book Uncle John'...  ...a cop and even volunteered for the FBI. In World War II, he became a decorated bomber pilot who compl...  ...o completed 89 missions in the Pacific. After the war , Captain Roddenberry was piloting a Pan Am passe...  ...e character in a position of aut...

Amazing coincidence, karma, or just plain luck? An...  ...o say, she survived.(Image credit: Wilson44691)5. Civil War Union Corporal Barton W. Mitchell found an envelo...  ...rm Siamese twins.) Neither Bunker brother went to war .9. When Lewis and Clark learned there was no wate...