(Baltimore Sun) Charles Carroll of Carrollton wasn’t in Philadelphia when the Second Continental Congress voted to break from Great Britain...

(Wikipedia) ... After the Battle of Cumberland Church on April 7, Lee's army made a third consecutive night march in an effort to stay ...

(Slate) ... The stories of Ruth’s home runs overshadowed a curious development on the team. During their time in Hot Springs, two of his te...

(Library of Congress) (Daily Beast) In discussions of great American writers who were also military veterans, the name Edgar Allan Poe i...

(The Aegis) Aberdeen Mayor Patrick McGrady pledged this week that the city would continue to support the ongoing community project to rest...

  (Historynet) On September 1, 1814, after the British had left the city of Washington in flames, the noted D.C. lawyer Francis Scott K...

(City Paper) ... To read “Happy Days” in Baltimore is a disorienting experience. Mencken brings the city, especially Hollins market, to s...

After World War One, veterans were offered a service bonus payable in 1945. And that was a fine and good thing, but along came the Great ...

    (BBC) Other than an off-colour tweet and subsequent apology by the British Embassy, the bicentennial of the punitive mission of...

(Wikipedia) Gilmor's Raid, also known as The Magnolia Station Train Raid, was a foraging and disruptive cavalry raid that was part of a...

(Rural Librarian) There is a lot of history in Harman, West Virginia. Indians migrated through here and hunted here. Early settlers came ...

  (Wikipedia) The Battle of Boonsboro took place on July 8, 1863, in Washington County, Maryland, as part of the Retreat from Gettysbur...

(Wikipedia) The Fight at Monterey Pass (or Gap) was an American Civil War military engagement beginning the evening of July 4, 1863, during...

"There would be floats in the morning and the one that got the eye was the Goddess of Liberty. She was supposed to be the most wholeso...

  “For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o’c...

   The men who fought there Were the tired fighters, the hammered, the weather-beaten, The very hard-dying men. They came and died A...

(Wikipedia) ... To prevent the advance of Confederate troops across the river from the Wrightsville (York County) side during the Civil War...

  (Wikipedia) Jeb Stuart enjoyed the glory of circumnavigating an enemy army, which he had done on two previous occasions in 1862, during...