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

(Wikipedia) ... Sickles's career was replete with personal scandals. He was censured by the New York State Assembly for escorting a k...

(Wikipedia) The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Uni...

(Baltimore Sun) Officials at the Hampton National Historic Site in Towson this week officially changed the name of a black history progr...

(Hanover Evening Sun) Bobblehead dolls of Abraham Lincoln's killer have been removed from the bookstore at the Gettysburg Museum & V...

(Cannonball) Major General John Sedgwick was one of the highest ranking officers in the Union Army to lose his life during the Civil War. ...

"This is a video I made of the trees of Perry Point. The engravings are from mentally ill patients from the Veterans Hospital. They dat...

(Washington Post) State officials had no historian review the textbook "Our Virginia" before it was distributed to fourth-graders ...

(Slate) ... Located about 15 miles east of Atlanta, Stone Mountain is a large granite monadnock , into which has been carved a bas relief sc...

(Yahoo! News) The First World War will officially end on Sunday when Germany pays off the last of the enormous debt which was set by the All...

(Dictionary.com) In more than 80 countries, on May 1, labor unions and working people take to the streets. The holiday is often referred to ...

(HistoryBuff.com) Every History of American journalistic hoaxing properly begins with the celebrated moon hoax which "made" the Ne...

(Lancaster Online) William Penn has been dead almost 300 years, but that doesn't stop his name from popping up in the most unexpected pl...

(NYTimes) ... He very likely never visited the towns of Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, straddling the Lehigh River in the Pocono Mountain...

(Baltimore Sun) Less than two weeks after a young black bear was fatally injured by a car on the Beltway near Lutherville, state wildlife of...

Author Daniel Okrent describes how wealthy people managed to evade Prohibition in this episode of Slate V's Bookmark. Link

(AP/Google) As they have for 70 years, students at the U.S. Naval Academy celebrated the end of their grueling first year by scaling a 21-fo...

(NYTBR) Paranoia is a bipartisan temptation. Amid last August’s town hall frenzy, there was a stir over a poll showing that roughly a third ...

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