How effective was the American brown-water navy during the Civil War?

Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, […]

In 1964 an Ohio woman took up the challenge that had led to Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

During the 1835–42 Second Seminole War and as Army scouts out West, these warriors from the South proved formidable.

William Frederick Cody (1846-1917) led a signal life, from his youthful exploits with the Pony Express and in service as a U.S. Army scout to his globetrotting days as a showman and international icon Buffalo Bill.