Silver's rally is the strongest since January 1864, echoing Civil War–era currency stress as prices surge past $118 and ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

True learning, said William Howard Day, is not the “extent” of memorizing lines from textbooks but the “depth” of knowledge. “And the depth will never be sounded until the mind of the student can by ...

A joint operating agreement ended in 2024, leading to the recent decision to combine the two newsrooms under one nameplate.

When Presidential elections occur in the United States, sometimes a witty catchphrase from a campaign can captivate and ...

Minnesota is the latest flashpoint in a federal crackdown involving ICE, Border Patrol and other agencies. But it's far from ...

For little under fourteen years, the Taiping Rebellion waged over China. Seventeen provinces were ravished and the estimated ...

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A rumor that Fox News host Jesse Watters said, "If [U.S. President Donald] Trump had been president during the Civil War, we would've won it," circulated online in December 2025. For example, one ...

Longfellow's son, Charley, went on to become a world traveler and author after his brief career as a soldier. (NPS) Charles Appleton Longfellow was the oldest child of American poet and writer Henry ...

Every few years I am reminded of one of my cardinal rules of journalism: Whenever you see elephants flying, don’t laugh, take notes. Because if you see elephants flying, something very different is ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...