On October 5, 1869, just more than four years after Lee surrendered to Grant at…
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Medal of Honor. (U.S. Navy) In December 2012, in the Laghman Province of eastern Afghanistan,…
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There was a time when Harris & Ewing was the nation’s largest photo agency. Based…
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It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good…
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For the Union Army of the Potomac and its commander, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside,…
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About one-fifth of military-age White men in the South perished during the war—a chilling statistic…
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In the hills 6 miles north of Three Forks, in south-central Montana, the Emerson Mining…
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Hiram Dryer is not a name that readily comes to mind when we ponder leaders…
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One stipulation of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie called for the establishment of a…
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A night owl’s lament about wanting more sleep became an unexpected hit song in 1918…