On this day 190 years ago, a small band of patriots defiantly stood against the Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo—one of the most legendary displays ...
The fighting enters its fifth year on Tuesday. A U.S.-based think tank says that as many as 1.8 million soldiers may have been killed, injured or missing on both sides.
Frank Dikotter, Dutch by origin, is a scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He has the good fortune to live in Palo Alto. It is there that he wrote this fifth book in his series on the ...
Malcolm Purinton teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, but he's also known as the Beer Historian. He pointed to one of the most famous Revolutionary events as an example of how central ...
By Dylan Mahorney Special to NKyTribune In the Antebellum Era, the Ohio River was not nearly as wide or deep as it is today. During particularly hot summers, the river could dry up so much that “boats ...
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