Appomattox Apple Tree Yields Prize for Winner’s Wife
Exquisite jewelry carved in the shape of acorns presented to Julia Dent Grant
Powerful Men Have Committed Carnal Crimes
Even in Puritan Boston, a wealthy man got away with victimizing a young woman
When Female Fliers Proved They Were More Than Powder Puffs
In the 1929, the All Women's Air Derby contestants braved breakdowns, bad maps, and desert crashes
Civil War Scholar on the Art of Merging Museums
CEO of newly redesigned American Civil War Museum talks about creating a diverse narrative of an American crisis
How Settler Abbie Gardner Survived a Massacre and Kidnapping
Taken hostage by an angry, starving Sioux tribe who slaughtered her family, Abbie Gardner stayed alive, and later made a career of telling her story of survival
Online Exclusive: Margaret Chase Smith Stands Up to Bully Joe McCarthy
Dignified and diminutive Maine Republican disliked communism—but liked 'Tail Gunner Joe's' way of fighting it even less
How the Pecan Strike Cracked San Antonio’s Power Structure
Mexican-Americans' brave stand against city politicians, the Catholic Church, and the police changed labor history
How Aging Confederate Veterans Kept Wartime Memories Alive
A half-century after the war, old soldiers banded together to share their stories and honor their comrades
China’s Lost Women in the Far West
Chinese women in the American West often worked as slaves or prostitutes and rarely got a square deal from either men or the law
Ardent but Unorthodox Mohawk Woman Became America’s First Native Saint
Kateri Tekakwitha shunned marriage and expressed her faith with mortification
Selling Scandalous Sex as Sober Cinema
Howard W. "Kroger" Babb made a bundle hawking a movie melodrama about a girl who gets in trouble
Postwar Dinner Guests Dished and Debated Confederate Heroes
At a Baltimore table in 1887, the discussion centered around Lee, Jackson, Stuart, and Longstreet
How Hooch Lubricated American Life
Besides making crops portable, cocktails like slings, flips, punches, and bounce were healthier than water
Precision Bass: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Instrumental Soul
Leo Fender's rhythmic innovation powered the music of a generation
Manassas: How This Southern City Came To Be More Than a Battlefield
Destroyed in the war, isolated Virginia rail junction was rebuilt in a spirit of reconciliation
