Leader of the most successful British partisan unit in the Revolutionary War, Simcoe’s troops plagued American forces from New York to South Carolina.   More »

From Crispus Attucks to Prince Esterbrooks, many African American Revolutionary War heroes contributed to the fight for American freedom.   More »

By the time the Civil War began, opposing forces in Bleeding Kansas and Missouri had been killing each other for five years. And were very good at it.   More »

Louis Antoine de Bougainville made a name for himself fighting in the forested wilds of North America and circumnavigating the globe.   More »

Louisiana held an interesting political climate during the American Civil War, and suffered many political hardships in the years that followed.    More »

Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet faced a daunting task trying to dislodge Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside’s Federals from Knoxville, Tennessee.   More »

Ernest Cuneo helped the Roosevelt administration with little fanfare before, during, and after World War II.   More »

Ernest Cuneo helped the Roosevelt administration with little fanfare before, during, and after World War II.   More »

By David A. Norris
Wind lifted away the fog sheltering the French lines. Atop a low ridge where the French army was deployed, a lone windmill provided a vivid range marker for 58 Prussian cannons on the neighboring hills. Shot fell like black hailstones amid the staff officers by the man-made   More »

In the deep woods of Chickamauga Creek, wary Union and Confederate soldiers thrashed the the under brush seeking a confrontation to the death.   More »