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Right now you are probably thinking that Chapin Parkway as named after him, right? Oddly enough, no. It was actually named ...
Sarah H. Giboney, widow of War of 1812 veteran Andrew Giboney, was Cape Girardeau’s last known connection to the war’s pensioners, her life spanning local history, hardship and remarkable ...
Brooks’ labored apologia is a history — his history — of recent American conservatism, a Manichaean fable of civilized, conscientious conservatives full of marvelous ideas and déclassé, ...
Sequoyah, born around 1770 in what is now Tennessee, was a Cherokee blacksmith, soldier and visionary whose invention changed ...
Oxford County celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. To celebrate, archivists put together a collection of stories from ...
This story originally appeared in the July 2025 issue of Town&Gown magazine. The War of 1812 is often overlooked, especially ...
Donald Trump once decried the idea of taking vacations as president. During his presidential campaign in 2015, he pledged to ...
Many issues in this book, “Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America” (Dutton, 336 pgs., $32 hardback), have been ...
A retired park ranger turned historian has written the definitive book on 100 years of search and rescue operations in Southern Arizona.
As a near case study of a father’s and mother’s quest to retain their own humanity during war and help their children do the same is of obvious value to a human family always recovering from ...
Nick Kurtz went 3-for-5 with two doubles in the A's series-opening win over the Astros on Thursday, becoming the first rookie ever to achieve a rare feat.