The funeral industry wasn't always like it is toda...  ...mbers of fatalities during the early years of the American Colonies. Eventually capitalism took over, and de...  ...of the corpse to preserve it, which is a uniquely American practice. Embalming started during the Civil...

The Civil War was the first American war to be documented on film, but those photographs a...  ...our perception of those scenes with his book The Civil War i...

This Presidents Day article is from the book Uncle...  ...the times and the presidents.A longtime symbol of American freedom and power, the White House, at its heart,...  ...getting shocked. LINCOLNS MAKE IT OVERDuring the Civil War , while her husband went about the business o...

From April 6-7, 1862, Americans slaughtered one another near a small log church i...  ...re casualties those two days than in all previous wars combined. It was a horrible shock to the divided...  ...there were worse to come.Giles Hellum, an African American employee of the Unio...

The United States is observing Martin Luther King,...  ...ay. Dr. King is best known for his work to in the Civil Rights Movement and his assassination in 1968. Wh...  ...nation in 1968. When asked for a King quote, most Americans will respond with the most famous line from his "...  ...t to say, about poverty,...

In the words of Vice President John Nace Garner, t...  ...er, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." That may be true, buit the characters who'...  ...cy, Arthur didn't hesitate to sign the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. Much to the chagrin of Conkl...  ...uch to the chagrin of Conklin...

The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo...  ..., she also worked as a spy and a nurse during the Civil War for the federal government, which rewarded her wi...  ...of the main women's group and instead resorted to civil disobedience to push a constitutional amendment...

150 years ago today, the Army of the Potamac and the Army of Northern Virginia were locked in a bloody slaughter near Fredericksburg, Virginia. On the third day of the five day engagement, a Union assault on Confederate...

Hugh Tudor, born in 1847, served in the US Army fr...  ...d in the US Army from 1864 through the end of the war . In his seventies, he married and had two daughte...  ...mber of United Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and one of ten surviving daughters of Union vete...

The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K...  ...t against the United States' involvement in World War I, which most Americans supported. With vaudeville, Keller's ambitious go...  ...should be released?A: Certainly. They opposed the war on the grounds that it was co...