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Bargain books are displayed prominently, because the only thing better than finding a great book is finding it at a great price. New releases get their moment in the spotlight, but the real magic lies ...
By Mike Virgintino On June 19, 1960, a Sunday that also was Father’s Day, New Yorkers were introduced to a unique theme park.
Foti’s Restaurant offers sophisticated farm-to-table cuisine that showcases the bounty of Virginia’s agricultural landscape. The seasonal menu changes regularly, but if the pan-seared scallops with ...
Tumultuous times calls for daring art and vibrant revelry. Seriously, in between protests, get some culture in your life.
High Frontier Honor Guard Ceremonial Guardsman raise the American flag during the Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Remembrance Week Flag Raising ceremony at Vosler Noncommissioned Officer Academy ...
The Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was the deadliest conflict in American history. It erupted over deeply entrenched divisions over slavery, states’ rights and the preservation of the Union.
American Civil War (1861-1865) — 698,000 deaths National Archives The original caption, though disputed, says this image is from trenches before a battle in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1865.
The U.S. is imposing sanctions on Sudan over reports that it used chemical weapons against rebel forces during the African country’s ongoing civil war, the State Department said this week.
But even after the American Colonies secured their own independence with the Revolutionary War’s end in 1783, they weren’t dissuaded from trying to pull Canada into the Union.
A 1936 map shows the location of a possible Civil War mass grave (circled in yellow). (Image credit: Jerry Miller) More than a century later, local historian and retired State Rep. Jerry Miller ...
Roberto Minervini’s narrative debut “The Damned” revisits the U.S. Civil War in a cinema verite style. Minervini, who has helmed a slew of documentary films, deployed his nonfiction ...
With [the Revolutionary War], it's harder to do because we're using smooth-bore guns that don't necessarily leave a signature. But what they do leave is a caliber, and they also leave a location.