David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 to August 14, 1870), originally named James Glasgow Farragut, w...

Andrew Johnson was born December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, NC. When he was 14, his mother apprenticed him...

Born in 1732 in Georgetown, South Carolina, Francis Marion was a fragile child. His parents let him ...

“Nunna daul Tsuny” means “The Trail Where They Cried”. Better known as “The Trail of Tears”, the sol...

William Seward was born on May 16th, 1801 in Orange County, New York. Out of six children he was the...

A proud Founding Father of the United States, Samuel Adams was a statesman, politician, political ph...

While often overlooked amongst the other "founding fathers," John Jay was as important as any in est...

"Slingin'" Sammy Baugh is often considered the first modern quarterback in professional football.&nb...

Known as the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull was one of the most electrifying hockey players in NHL history.&...

Bobby Orr completely revolutionized the position of defense in the National Hockey League.  Bef...

Widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century, Jim Thorpe gained national atte...

The debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas preceding an election...

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, is often blamed by historians for the manifest failur...

With foreknowledge of how historical events actually turned out, discovering the actual motivations ...

Slavery is an unmitigated evil, as few today would disagree. To compel people to work on threat of d...

$45.5 trillion - that's how much the government has in unfunded liabilities on its balance sheet. Th...

Though the Civil War effectively ended with the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox, there were st...

In 1862, Lincoln sought to use the proximity of the two warring nations' capitols to expedite an end...

The first battle at Manassas Junction, better known as the Battle of Bull Run, had resulted in an em...

After the failure of Lee's advance into Pennsylvania, the Confederate war effort was essentially fin...

While the Union offensive found itself stalling repeatedly in Virginia, the western theater of the w...

The Federal soldiers garrisoned around the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina found themselves in ...

Throughout the first year of the Civil War, both sides saw the conflict as something that could be d...

If there's one thing you can point to that directed the course of the Civil War, it was the quality ...

If a single battle could be said to have made the difference in the Civil War, undoubtedly that batt...

War is always a time of great advancement in technology, and the Civil War was no different.  A...

Before there was Terrell Owens or Randy Moss, there was Don Hutson.  The first superstar wide r...

One of the all-time great quarterbacks in NFL history, Johnny Unitas was instrumental in ushering in...

A legendary hero of the Revolutionary War, Francis Marion so confounded the British forces with his ...

Perhaps the most famous of the United States' founding fathers, George Washington is legendary as th...

In discussions of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, fans and supposed football experts often...