
From Hair to Opportunity
Rochester working girl builds an empire of businesswomen and changed the salon experience
Rochester working girl builds an empire of businesswomen and changed the salon experience
The Billinghurst Requa Battery, a breechloading gun, consisted of 25 horizontally arrayed barrels and required a crew of three to work it.
In June 1864 two of the Civil War’s fiercest cavalry commanders faced off at Trevilian Station, Virginia.
Colorado's Ridgway Western Heritage Society offers John Wayne fans a wide-format, photo-laden 50th anniversary look at the filming of True Grit
The murky fate of the Texian dead grows murkier after human remains turn up inside the famed San Antonio mission chapel
Wayne Brazel confessed to having killed Pat Garrett, the onetime New Mexico sheriff forever known as the man who shot Billy the Kid
Philosophers who argue that reason defines truth face resistance from those who value tradition, culture, and faith
One observer wrote in 1861, "it almost broke my heart to see the soldiers bring armfuls of bacon and hams and throw them down upon the floor of the marble room."
Inferno transforms Nantucket from whaling mecca to seaside resort
At Gettysburg’s 1888 grand reunion, Confederate outcast James Longstreet turned man of the hour. but his memory tour was almost fatal
Former schoolteacher finds a fitting home as one of John Hunt Morgan’s vaunted Cavalry raiders
Hoping to smash the entire Union Navy, the Confederacy tried to buy the most lethal fleet afloat
Parties have used lame-duck judicial appointments to advance their agendas since Marbury and Madison were pups