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(HMDB) The witchcraft case of Grace Sherwood is one of the best known in Virginia. She was accused of bewitching a neighbor’s crop in 1698...

(LoC) On October 28, 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act providing for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ...

(Aegis) Minute amounts of a World War I blister agent were found at an Aberdeen Proving Ground demolition site after a pipe was broken ...

(The Onion) With the United States facing a daunting array of problems at home and abroad, leading historians courteously reminded the natio...

(Baltimore Sun) Last year Baltimore's tourism officials encouraged visitors to find their "happy place" and created the world...

(Baltimore Sun) By the time students get to Matthew Finck's 11th-grade U.S. history class, the Civil War and the assassination of Abraha...

"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." - Sir Isaac Newton (Wikipedia) The South Sea Company was ...

(Wikipedia) The Maryland train collision occurred at 1:04 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line in the Chase c...

(NYTimes) ... The national parks’ history is full of examples of misguided visitors feeding bears, putting children on buffalos for photos a...