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Custer One of the enduring stories associated with George Armstrong Custer is that of his having an Indian mistress and child.   ...

Youngstown, Ohio 1953 Youngstown, Ohio 2013  Youngstown and America  Between the 1920s and 1960s, Youngst...

Scientists now believe that Easter Island was colonized by the Polynesians in the fifth century A.D.   At first there were perhaps ...

In the late 1930’s the United States took various substantive steps to check Axis penetration of Latin America. President Franklin Roosevelt...

Marcus Crassus Without the consent of the Senate, the wealthy and politically powerful Marcus Crassus decided to embark on a war of...

In the mid-nineteenth century, Arlington was an eleven-hundred-acre estate managed by U.S. Colonel and Mrs. Robert E. Lee; Fairfax, Pr...

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A Southern Spy in Northern Virginia By Charles V. Mauro As the Civil War raged, Confederate Brigadier General J.E.B. Stuart entrusted...

August 24, 1814: Washington in Flames By Carole Herrick August 24, 1814: Washington in Flames is an account of the British invasion...

Devil's Island At the top of the prison system pyramid in the U.S. are the so called Super-Maximum prisons. Super Maximum priso...

Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier's Odyssey by Robert C. Plumb  George P. McClelland, a member of the 155th Pennsylvania I...

These fictional memoirs are based on the true story of a southern belle who defied convention to become a front line soldier and spy for...

Robert Hanssen  Excerpted from: The Hidden History of Northern Virginia Not surprisingly, the Washington D.C. area was a hotbed ...

Civil War historian Don Hakenson gives insights into Virginia's greatest Civil War generals. Time Travel 21 - Your portal to the ...

The Pirate Jose Gaspar Perhaps the greatest of Florida's pirates was Jose Gaspar. The memory of Jose Gaspar, or "Gaspa...

The first pirate to operate in the waters of New England was one Dixey Bull. In June, 1632, he was peacefully trading in Penobscot Bay ...

In the middle of the 19th century, medical writers attempted to establish ways to identify male homosexuality, which was considered a signi...

Few visitors to Hawaii realize that they may be only a few feet from a hidden royal treasure. On May 8, 1819, the doleful sound of the grea...

The Braddock Massacre In 1755 war raged across the American frontier. The English colonies were locked in a death grip with the Fren...

Horace Greeley Laws concerning divorce varied widely among the states throughout much of American history. In New England, where th...