Ten months into the Civil War ... foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage. At the end of August 1864, the Alexandria Gazette in Virginia lamented ...

Cassandra Good - Author, First Family: George Washington’s Heirs and the Making of America A 19th-century lithograph of Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" speech Library of ...

Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP) After ... Virginia. She also became an organizer and leader of scouts — people who gathered intelligence about enemy locations during the Civil War ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: ...

A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram that after arriving home from his trip abroad, without any "explicable provocation," he decided to watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" on PBS.

The Smithsonian is a public-private partnership built and sustained over the decades with support from Americans of every ...

On Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m., the Montclair Public Library will host New York Times ... s wife and a Union officer during the American Civil War. The event, part of MPL’s Open Book / Open ...

public library moved a pro-Palestinian alphabet book to a different location in its kids’ section this week following a review of the book by library staff. After the Mary Riley Styles Public ...