Plenty of U.S. presidents were known to have certain quirks, and the following presidents made some unusual choices when it ...

President James A. Garfield. (Archived in the Library of Congress Web Archives at   Buy Photo Recently a president ...

Temperatures dipped below zero in Vicksburg on Feb. 10, 1895, the day Senate Bill S. 4382 was passed. The legislation by ...

War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young ...

By making paper money legal tender, the government shut the door on sound money. Repealing legal tender laws is the first ...

Research shows most American presidents fade from collective memory within 50 to 100 years, explaining why even Vice ...

Fort Clinch State Park offers a perfect marriage of historical significance and natural splendor, with a remarkably preserved Civil War-era fortress standing sentinel over some of Florida’s most ...

The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

Dr. Howard Snyder grew up in Cheyenne and became a U.S. Army surgeon during World War II. When he met Dwight Eisenhower, the ...

The tradition of naming tanks for American generals began not with the Americans themselves, but with the British.

Vice President JD Vance, an Ohio native who is positioning himself to run for the nation's highest office, stumbled on an Ohio presidential pop quiz earlier this month. Here's a cheat-sheet with the ...

At Missionary Ridge, one of his commanding officers remarked that the young man “seems to be afraid of nothing.” After Missionary Ridge, Arthur distinguished himself repeatedly in 13 battles in Gen.