It was the spring of 1781, and war had come to Virginia. Many Virginians were fighting elsewhere with George Washington’s forces, weakening
It was Ray Whitley who started the excitement. Throughout the 1930s, Whitley traveled with the World’s Championship Rodeo, providing musical entertainment with
“The hills bear all manner of fantastic shapes,” Charles Bessey observed, noting that they sometimes featured open pockets of bare sand in
As of this writing, about 700 billion photographs have been uploaded to the internet. Billions and billions more exist in physical form.
George Washington, universally acclaimed nowadays as one of our best presidents, encountered a little bad press in his own day. Even before
Walt Disney’s 1948 animated short, “The Legend of Johnny Appleseed,” famously depicts its main character as a Pennsylvania farmer yearning to join
Among the Founding Fathers, Roger Sherman is one of the best-kept secrets. But he shouldn’t be, especially in light of the cumulative
In mid-1772, a British customs schooner, the HMS Gaspee, attempted to catch an American packet ship off the coast of Rhode Island.
As I step outside the House chamber on the second floor of the Capitol, I guide my visitors halfway down the stairs
The crypt of the U.S. Capitol isn’t the dark, dank dwelling conjured up by its evocative moniker. On the contrary, the crypt
World War II Veteran Editor’s note: Stanley Feltman passed away on September 23, shortly before this issue went to press. In
In war, information can be more valuable than tanks, planes, ships, or soldiers. Information sent and received without detection can mean the
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the start of President John F. Kennedy’s administration. When he took office in January 1961,
On a summer’s day in 1955, the stars aligned for an airman second class at the Lowry Air Force Base in Denver,
The hourlong flight across lower Michigan was nearing completion when Ed Cole found himself in fog on his approach to Kalamazoo. It
It was December 1777, one of the bleakest times during the Revolutionary War. The Continental Army had won a few battles; however,
When a young U.S. Army lieutenant named Zebulon Pike set out to explore the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains in 1806,
By the time George Clymer was 1 year old, both his mother and his father were dead. Orphaned, George was placed in
Michael Owens came from Irish stock. His family had escaped a potato famine and an oppressive British regime by immigrating to America,
In the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War, Boston wasn’t the only scene of intense friction between British soldiers and
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