Thursday, February 26, 2026

General John Bell Hood after the Civil War

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  Confederate General John Bell Hood surrendered to Union forces in Natchez, Mississippi, on May 31, 1865. He moved to New Orleans, Louisian...

The Greenland Nuclear Accident of 1968

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  On January 21, 1968, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber, part of the Cold War airborne alert mission, crashed near Thule Air Base...

General James Longstreet After the Civil War

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  After surrendering with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in 1865, James Longstreet relocated to New Orleans. Fa...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Catholic Holy Relics in the United States

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  The United States is home to numerous holy relics , primarily Catholic ones, including fragments of saints' bodies (first-class reli...

The Death of General George Patton

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  On December 9, 1945, General George S. Patton Jr.—the audacious commander whose Third Army raced across Europe—set out for a pheasant hunt...

The Klan Act of 1871: Then and Now

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  The  Enforcement Act of 1871  also known as the  Klan Act , was enacted to combat the violent anti-government vigilantism of the Ku Klux K...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

General William T. Sherman After the Civil War

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  Following the American Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman, the Union general renowned for his "March to the Sea," continued his...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

“The Mad Mullah” of Somalia

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  In the scorched sands of 19th-century Somaliland, where nomadic clans roamed under the   relentless sun, Sayyid Muhammad Abdullah Hassan w...

Truman Tries to Buy Greenland

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  On April 9, 1940 Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany.   One year later, on April 1941 the United States occupied Greenland to defend it a...
Sunday, February 01, 2026

Winter Misery at Valley Forge 1778

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  General George Washington wrote of the march into Valley Forge: "To see men without clothes to cover their nakedness, without blanket...

George Washington’s Winter Storm

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        Weather  information goes back a long time in Virginia, thanks to record keeping by observers such as George Washington, James Madis...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Colonel Mosby’s Daring Rangers

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  North Central Virginia became the preserve of one of the most dashing figures of the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed, the “Gray...

Colonel John Mosby’s Thoughts on War

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  North Central Virginia became the preserve of one of the most dashing figures of the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed, the “Gray...

Mosby’s Confederacy in the Civil War

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  North Central Virginia became the preserve of one of the most dashing figures of the Civil War, John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed, the “Gray...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Grave of John S. Mosby “The Gray Ghost”

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  The grave of Colonel John S. Mosby, the Gray Ghost, is in the Warrenton Cemetery in Warrenton, Virginia.   During the course of the Civil ...

Robert E. Lee after the Civil War

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  After surrendering the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee transitione...