Black is such a powerful word because it conveys d...  ...lack widow spider often refers to the three North American species known for their dark bodies and red hourg...  ...ave been evolutionarily advantageous because they warn predators to avoid the spider. For example, if a...  ...and people during the cheque...

In the time of Halloween, the serious and not-so-s...  ...he Ouija board, in fact, came straight out of the American 19th century obsession with spiritualism, the bel...  ...half of the 19th century. Spiritualism worked for Americans : it was compatible with Christian dogma, meaning...  ...dbirth; children died...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi...  ...ago, it reminded us if this quote, attributed to Warren G. Harding: "I can take care of my enemies all ri...  ...t. The Continental Army invaded Canada during the American Revolution, and the U.S. Army made repeated incur...  ...the U.S. Army made repeate...

The following is an article from the book History'...  ...1. TRADING POSTSThe first explorers of the North American frontier were interested in one thing: making mon...  ...oast and the shipping lanes to Europe. Pockets of civilization grew up around the posts, a melting pot of Native...  ...grew up around the p...

September 10th will mark the 200th anniversary of...  ...200th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie, an American naval victory during the War of 1812. The American commander at that battle was the gallant and well...  ...Perry.To mark the anniversary of the battle, some *...

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Civil War photographer Matthew Brady began taking photograp...  ...w Brady began taking photographs years before the war , and made a good living taking portraits. In one...  ...ale is retold by Robert Wilson, the editor of The American Sc...

The particularly American form of cooking we call the barbecue has a long h...  ...ize the meat. And use it they did. During the pre- Civil War years, Southerners ate an average of five pounds...

Civil War soldiers endured a lot of horrors: fighting fello...  ...oldiers endured a lot of horrors: fighting fellow Americans , long waits for medical care, primitive living co...  ...rownstone front, it was nevertheless ... the only warm...

The following is an article from The Annals of Imp...  ...He is the Cope of the infamous "Cope-Marsh War " that pitted him against arch-scientific-rival...  ...spent summers in the freshly exposed wilds of the American West, spending hugely (mostly from governm...  ...telegraph was one of the new c...