Nina (above) and Lucy Ann live at the Museum of the Confederacy but recently made a trip to VCU Medical Center  where they were X-rayed to determine whether their craniums and upper bodies were spacious enough to carry...

October 27 marks the 152 birthday of one of our na...  ...inauguration, he appointed Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission where Theodore served until 18...  ...t the time. In 1895, he left his position in the Civil Service Commission to serve as the president of t...  ...eaking study of the U.S. and B...

The following is an article from Uncle John’s Ba...  ...ions and some of those were bred to be simply lap warmers . DOGS OF WAR (Image credit; Flickr user United States Marine...  ...in their conquest of the New World. During the Civil War , dogs were used for sentry dut...

You may have heard of the Japanese holdouts -- sol...  ...Japan that did not surrender at the end of World War II -- but continued to hide in jungles through th...  ...people to keep fighting long after they had lost wars . Let's take a look at some of the men who were t...  ...s the last Japanese soldier to su...

My name is Teale Hatheway and I am a mixed-media p...  ...Bridge” in honor of the men who served in World War I. The Fletcher Drive Bridge (1927, 469’) Th...  ...contrasting elements or Beaux-Arts bridge design, Warren Truss construction and that ridiculous ninety deg...  ...n Wonders of the World by the...

Dungeness Mansion on Cumberland Island off the coa...  ...osm of US history, with battles with the British, civil war , emancipation and boom and bust all playing their...

The following article is reprinted from The Best o...  ...ll; one from Spalding himself; and one from James Ward , a friend and supporter of Spalding. THE "ROUN...  ...AN CONTINGENT" In deference to Spalding, James Ward supported the theory of American origin, though h...  ...so clever enough to know that...

The 1987 film The Last Emperor was a critical and...  ...But effectively, he was just the tool of various warlords in the chaos of early 20th Century China. Later,...  ...-1922) took power in 1916, in the middle of World War I. He tried and failed to remove Austria-Hungary...  ...ied and failed to remove Austr...

A military fort, out in the ocean, with a moat...  ...obsolete for that purpose. During and after the Civil War the fort began to be used as a prison for deserte...  ...h used the facilities during the Spanish-American War . The fort was also used from 1888 through 1900 as...  ...on, and was garrisoned again br...

Antisa Khvichava is celebrating her 130th birthday...  ...peared in the past century amid revolutions and a civil war which followed the collapse of the Russian Empire...