West Virginia Is Looking for the Descendants of Civil War Veterans Who Never Claimed Their Medals The unprecedented violence of the Civil War spurred new precedents for recognizing military service. The Medal of Honor , the first medal that enlisted... 4/14/19 1
Audrey Hepburn Was a Secret World War II Hero Princess of Hollywood Audrey Hepburn was secretly a war hero who risked her life harboring a British paratrooper in Nazi-occupied Holland, a new book has... 4/14/19 0
All 32 Irish County Coat of Arms, What They Mean and Where They Come From Every county of Ireland has its own coat of arms, whether officially granted or via heraldic tradition. In the majority of cases these crests were actually... 3/7/19 16
Anglos, Hispanics and the Formation of America One hundred years before the arrival of the Pilgrims, Mexicans were already here. (With typical dark humor they used to say that when God ordered Fiat... 3/7/19 0
The First African-American to Hold a Patent Invented ‘Dry Scouring’ The next time you pick up your clothes at the dry cleaner, send a thank you to the memory of Thomas Jennings. Jennings invented a process called ‘dry... 3/4/19 0
The Enslaved Girl Who Became America’s First Poster Child On February 19, 1855, Charles Sumner, the Massachusetts senator, wrote his supporters about an enslaved 7-year-old girl whose freedom he had helped to... 2/25/19 0
The Scot Who Owned More Than 2,000 Slaves in Jamaica Malcolm 12th of Poltalloch, whose family lands stretched through the Kilmartin area of Argyll, made vast riches in both Scotland, Australia and the Caribbean... 12/4/18 0
Relive Medieval London’s Bloody Murders With This New Interactive Death Map It was the priest in Dunstan Parish with the small knife, the brother in the Tower of London with the stave, the Welsh tailor in St. Mary Woolnoth with... 12/4/18 1