(Video Link) This short film by Nathaniel Lin...  ...by Nathaniel Lindsay is a deadpan parody of Cold War -era nuclear survival guides. Ostensibly, it's a...  ...1981 educational film by the Australian Board of Civil Defense. The narrator advises survivors on prope...

The Liljenquist family collected thousands of...  ...uist family collected thousands of photographs of Civil War soldiers over the years. Brandon Liljenquist saw...  ...he years. Brandon Liljenquist saw a collection of war photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan and was ins...  ...Iraq and Afghanistan and was insp...

Powell drank some water from an old tin canteen an...  ...s and calendars. When I first came back to human civilization I was in a sort of fog and I wasn’t entirely su...  ...time during the Depression, but before the second war . I found a cabin in the Barren Lands and tried th...  ...knew I would have to hu...

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...