Edwin M. Stanton, born in Ohio in 1814, was educated as a lawyer, passed the bar in 1836, and practi...

Charles Francis Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 18, 1807. His grandfather was John...

One of the most dominant teams in the National Football League during the late 1960s and early 1970s...

William Seward was a man of significant personal accomplishment.  His private and public life r...

In 1830, men, women and children were removed from their native lands.  After being literally h...

Widely considered the best player in the history of college football, Harold "Red" Grange was a thre...

During his presidential campaign, Ron Paul put forth a novel argument - to abolish the IRS. The icon...

One of the legendary names in Chicago Blackhawks history, Stan Mikita was the NHL's premier center d...

When a young Len Dawson was trying to decide which college to attend, he eventually settled on Purdu...

"These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine wrote those hauntingly elegant words. ...

In most high school histories, the Loyalists - those who preferred British rule to revolution - are ...

The Confederacy was faced with nearly impossible odds. They had fewer people, a smaller military, a ...

The Trail of Tears was one of the first genocides in the modern sense of the term - a clear precurso...

Social Security has been used for general federal funds since the Johnson administration, but that's...

The New York Draft Riots of 1863 was the most incendiary revolt since the time of the Revolution. It...

In the spring of 1865, the Confederacy lay in tatters.  Union forces occupied much of its terri...

The Battle of Chickamauga was the culmination of a Union campaign in Tennessee and Georgia, and one ...

By December of 1862, Lincoln had had enough of George B. McClellan.  The Major General's glacia...

Early in the Civil War, the Confederacy realized that fighting a defensive conflict could only lead ...

The secession of Virginia left the nation's capital in a precarious position in 1861.  Confeder...

Time and time again in the Eastern theater of the Civil War, the Union forces vastly outnumbered the...

Salmon Portland Chase (1808 – 1873) was born in Cornish, New Hampshire; later he became a Senator fr...

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina to a poor family. After the death of his ...

Thomas Paine, probably best known for his 1776 pamphlet, “Common Sense,” and one of the recognized f...

Arguably, Johnny Unitas is the greatest quarterback of all time.  Born May 7, 1933 in Pittsburg...

Edwin McMasters Stanton was born in 1814 to David Stanton, a Quaker physician and Lucy (Norman) Stan...

Andrew Johnson (1808 - 1875) was Vice-President of the United States under Abraham Lincoln.  Wi...

George Washington was born into a landed gentry family in 1732 and was one of six children from his ...

In the early 1700s through the 1800s approximately 400,000 were white slave owners out of 27 million...

Daniel Webster was a great statesman, lawyer, Congressman, Senator and orator.  He was born in ...