In the time of Halloween, the serious and not-so-s...  ...dbirth; children died of disease; and men died in war . Even Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the venerable pr...  ...-year-old son died of a fever in 1862; during the Civil War , spiritualism gained adherents in droves, people...  ...connect with loved ones wh...

The following article is republished from Uncle Jo...  ...is first term, the nation was on the verge of the Civil War . In the midst of trying to reunify the divided co...  ...he economy of the South had been decimated by the war ; hatred and animosity were rampant. Lincoln's pla...  ...Winston Churchill, a freq...

Image: Universal Pictures via Collider...  ...use it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself ... Science fiction is central to...  ...@HardSciFiMovies) October 8, 2013 Image: Warner Bros. Remote imaging detects a black, perf...  ...ance sends a lone soldier back in...

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...  ...the U.S. Army made repeated incursions during the War of 1812. In 1839 the state of Maine only narrowly...  ...e state of Maine only narrowly...

(Image: David Bachrach/Library of Congress) For a...  ...d former Disney animator Chris Oakley. A longtime Civil War buff, Oakley took a new look at Gardner's crowd p...

The following is an article from the book History'...  ...oast and the shipping lanes to Europe. Pockets of civilization grew up around the posts, a melting pot of Native...  ...nce: The telegraph was vital to both sides in the Civil War and was used effectively by law enforcement to hu...  ...states would remai...

The Lawrence Massacre, also known as Quantrill's r...  ...ssacre, also known as Quantrill's raid during the Civil War took place 150 years ago today. Pro-slavery force...

In 1931, John B. Sparks created a "histomap" that...  ...reated a "histomap" that distilled the history of civilization into a colorful timeline. See 4,000 years of empi...  ...and falling, and even though it stops after World War I, you can imagine how it would look if it were c...  ...rprise—he made this...

September 10th will mark the 200th anniversary of...  ...f Lake Erie, an American naval victory during the War of 1812. The American commander at that battle wa...  ...rs," said Frezza, 50, adding that he's a longtime War of 1812 and Civil War re-enactor.When the Niagara was...

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