On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the Great War with a very small army and limited equipment. How would the Yank endure and ultimately prevail over the challenges of Twentieth Century warfare?Helmets were in co...

A Highland charge was a traditional Scottish battle tactic involving wedge-shaped formations of Scots running toward enemy positions. Upon reaching effective musket range, they would fire a single volley, drop their musk...

In 1862, John Gilleland was a 53-year old carpenter in Athens, Georgia. He was too old to serve in the Confederate Army, but he was a private in a home guard unit. Determined to find some way to counteract the Union's ma...

I own a globe that could have only existed for 6 months in 1939 pic.twitter.com/IL6Slm4bOX— DJ Branham🗽 (@DJBranham) December 30, 2025 X user DJ Branham shares a photo of an unusual globe that he found at an an...

Barry's Borderpoints is a website featuring photos...  ...includes some of the more eccentric borders that history and politics have drawn across the world. Among t...

When the people of Texas overthrew the Santa Anna's shackles of centralist tyranny and established the Republic of Texas, General Sam Houston served as the second President of the Republic.President Houston's government...

Yesterday marked the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, which was the decisive battle of the Norman invasion of England. William the Bastard earned the sobriquet William the Conqueror when he defeated and kille...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University, like other world-class rare book libraries, has treasures that could sell for vast amounts of money if auctioned. But it also has an item that does not ha...

West of Bakersfield is the town of Taft. It has a population of 8,546 people. It developed in the late 1800s and was known as Moron.Stories vary as to how it got its name. Either the residents chose it on their own or th...

As previously noted, the precise day in which World War II ended is nebulous. August 15 is normally celebrated as V-J Day, although it was on September 2 that Japanese officials boarded the USS Missouri to sign the instr...