"President Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge," David Adler writes in his weekly ...

Louis Wigfall would represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, but his short fuse and alcoholism eventually wrecked his life and ...

January 10 marks pivotal events in history, from the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I to the League of Nations’ launch ...

BC: Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war which would lead ...

First National Bank tellers, about 1900. When the First National Bank of Fremont was started by Sardis Birchard about 1861, ...

An old cemetery in Hazlet contains the graves of several war veterans, but their locations are unclear. A construction ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

Some say Florida has more than 200 ghost towns. Here's a list of some and the story of one that was founded by a 19th-century ...

An American Saga is finally getting its moment on Netflix. The big-budget western was sadly one of the notable flops of 2024, ...

Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...