Winning the West: Indian Wars After 1840
At the turn of the eighteenth century the territory east of the Mississippi River seemed like enough land for the growing U.S. population for generations to co...
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Indian Wars
For more than three hundred years, white men battled Native Americans for control of the North American continent. Beginning shortly after European settlers landed on the shores of the pre...
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The British and Cherokee nations, each finding the other strange and curious, sought peace when they sent delegates to each other in 1762. A new exhibit details both sides, through the eyes of the ...
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Washington (dpa) - His face graces the US one dollar bill, but
historians worry that with every generation, fewer Americans really
know about George Washington, the first US...
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About two weeks ago, archaeologist Tom Kutys thought he'd found a stone wall when he came across mortared capstones in a trench at the state park that once was the site of French and British forts....
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More than a century ago, Buffalo Bill Cody took Wyoming to the world with his Wild West show.His trick-roping cowboys, stern-faced Indian chiefs and exotic animal displays made Cody a celebrity in ...
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When Louis-Joseph de Montcalm departed the southern shore of this Adirondack lake in 1757, he left behind the smoldering ruins of a British fort, mutilated bodies and the seeds for an American lite...
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Today is Thursday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2007. There are 109 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 13, 1788, the Congress of the Confederation authorized the first nation...
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Today is Sunday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2007. There are 36 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 25, 1783, the British evacuated New York, their last military position in th...
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Note to Pittsburghers: Take what you think you know about the Steel City, wad it up into a little black-and-gold ball and throw it away.That's what the organizers of Pittsburgh's 250th birthday cel...
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For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to wha...
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The mansion still overlooks the Potomac, looking much as it did in the late 18th century. Sheep still graze in the pastures, and mules help work the fields.
But carefully tu...
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Winning the West: Indian Wars After 1840
How British, Cherokees saw each other
