In American history classes, we only learn the big...  ...American Eevolution, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War , and oops, better skip ahead to World War II or the school year will run out. In all these...

You've heard about boys joining the army in the Civil War who were so young that they weren't given weapons...  ...n the US Army. He was twelve years old. After the war , in which Clem was wounded twice and captured onc...  ...retired as a brigadier general in 1915, the last Civil War...

Yukon Cornelius, the great mountain man of the fro...  ...ers a lightsaber -- an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. In Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back he almost dies when ca...

In 1934, two teenagers in Baltimore dug into the d...  ...discovered a literal pot of gold- a cache of pre- Civil War gold coins in a copper pot! The two boys, not ful...

After the American Civil War , there was some attempt to help formerly-enslaved...

As we have noted in the past, President John Tyler...  ...nd defended by African American troops during the Civil War .-via Educatëd Hillbilly

In the late 19th century, con men of all kinds mad...  ...that those incidences were noticed and recorded? Civil War general Edward Powers noticed, and published a bo...

When Americans visit Rome, they are impressed by t...  ...the Holy Roman Empire. That last one seems like a civil war , but it included most of Europe marching against...

November 9 is the 96th birthday of Harrison Ruffin...  ...her prominent figures from both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War

In the movies, pirates are charming scalawags who...  ...awags who operate outside of the normal limits of civilization . This might give you the wrong idea about the Gol...  ...s were just fine with deadly violence, whether in war or in plundering coastal villages or even in comp...