Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

Roger Conger’s 1964 “A Pictorial History of Waco.” 2000’s “A Pictorial History of Waco Volume II: Photographs from the Collection of James F. Jasek,” edited by Robert Davis and Barbara ...

Threatening to bar or limit imports can successfully exert pressure on trading partners. In terms of asymmetric interdependence and power, the United States is in a favorable bargaining position with ...

Gold From A Divided Nation. The hoard dates back to the 1860s, the height of the American Civil War.The coins—mostly $1, $10, and $20 Liberty Head gold pieces—carry mint marks from ...

“The Elephant Riders” imagines an alternate history of the American Civil War in which both sides use airships as reconnaissance vehicles and the cavalry units ride elephants into battle. 4.

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...

Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that ...

Rose Leslie has played detectives, Downton Abbey maids, and vampire victims with David Tennant, but when it comes to her real-life dynasty, sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. As the actress ...

Created by the Allies 10 years after World War II to help defend Western Europe, the German army was designed to fight as little as possible. Today, Berlin wants to make it 'fit for war,' but the ...

Before industry filled East Chicago’s Calumet neighborhood, children swam in a clean pond and the Grand Calumet River, picked flowers, caught green frogs and ate wild grapes and berries.

Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) administrators Bob Keatinge, Jim Campos and the primary staff of the Canalino Title VII Preschool program, Betty Bautista and Beverly ...