On the clear, windy morning of December 2, 1859, just before 11:00, the jail doors opened and guards moved John Brown to his funeral cortege.
On This Day
What the Gettysburg Address Means for America Today
On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. When the battered armies limped out of Pennsylvania after July’s brutal fight, they left behind them more than seven thousand corpses in a town with fewer than 2500 inhabitants.
The Arrest of John Peter Zenger and the Seeds of the American Revolution
On November 17, 1734, newspaper printer John Peter Zenger was arrested on charges of seditious libel.
Joseph Hooker and the Problem of Politics in the Military
In the midst of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the bicentennial of Union General Joseph Hooker’s birth on November 13 hardly seems worthy of much celebration.
Nevada’s Statehood: Lincoln’s Halloween Treat
On October 31, while children of all ages don costumes and pursue candy, Nevadans will hold four parades around the state to commemorate their sesquicentennial.
October 29, 1929: Wealth, Poverty, and the End of an Era
Monday, October 28, 1929 was opening night for New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Four thousand glittering attendees thronged to the elegant building on foot or in one of a thousand limousines to see Puccini’s Manon Lescaut…
The Quest for Quebec
Over the course of the seventeenth century, the English and the French battled each other in upstate New York and Canada for control of the New World.
Louisiana Purchase
On October 20, 1803, the Senate approved a treaty between the United States and the French Republic. This treaty was no small affair.
Eisenhower’s Scraped Knee
On this day, October 14, in 1890, Dwight Eisenhower was born. There are many interesting tidbits about Ike — like his problem with gambling, or his fascination with Gettysburg,