On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
French forces in Spain were severely overstretched, as Napoleon withdrew the best troops for his invasion of Russia. Wellington saw an opportunity to strike. First he secured the strategic ...
One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...
Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton became a father for the first time when his son, Philip, was born on January 22, 1782. "He ...
With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...
A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...
In 1996, as Atlanta prepared to host the Summer Olympic Games, the watershed department erected fences along Ridgewood Road, ...