Robert Selph Henry was a Southern historian of the War Between the States who constructed in separate works taken together a unified narrative of the period from the Mexican War to the end of Reconstruction, a period which Henry saw as the crucible out...

Miles, Robert Henry Sunday, June 18, 2000 Miles, Robert Henry Age 76. Died Thursday, June 15, 2000 at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital after an all too brief, but amazingly courageous battle with cancer. Bob was born to George and Myrtle Buchanan Miles on...

6 MAY 1916-4 MARCH 1997 BOB DICKE contributed to advances in radar; atomic physics; quantum optics; gravity physics; astronomical methods at radio, optical, and X-ray wavelengths; astrophysics; and the expanding universe. The unifying theme is his application of powerful and scrupulously controlled experimental...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2007. There are 131 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 22, 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.On this date:In 1485, England's King...

Its spacious lobby was the meeting place of politicians and oil-rich millionaires.Its guest rooms and restaurants bustled with the frenetic pace of freewheeling ranchers and drillers.Its banquet rooms were the boisterous stumping ground of Oklahoma governors and at least four presidents.The ornate Skirvin Hotel _...