Flooding of Sacandaga Valley
"They put the old valley to sleep," one worker claimed during the transformation of the Sacandaga River Valley into the Great Sacandaga Lake in...
Battle of Little Bighorn: 37 – Who Will Be President, Now or In Future?
1875, a Presidential election year, was the year George and Libbie Custer made a trip to New York. George had numerous friends there who...
Jefferson – A Religious Enigma
What role did the Scottish Enlightenment play in Jefferson's views on religious freedom, and would he have seen the United States as a Christian...
Jefferson and Religious Freedom in the US
Thomas Jefferson stands alongside Madison as the one of the strongest voices in America for Religious Freedom.
Thomas Jefferson and religion
Much has been said about...
Champion of Religious Freedom: James Madison – Father of the Constitution
One of the most important figures in the concept of the separation of church and state in American history was Virginian, James Madison.
Although it...
Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris writes a masterful account of the events that shaped the man who became the 26th President of the United States, in this...
A President’s Reading List
Abraham Lincoln was a reader all his life. His love of literature shaped his views as well as his political policies.
Born into a poor...
Burying George Pullman
To rail passengers, Pullman was a savior, but to his employees, Pullman was a devil. And when the millionaire died, many of those employees...
The Attempt to Steal Lincoln’s Body
In the 1870's a gang of counterfeiters turned grave robbers in an attempt to free one of their members by holding Abraham Lincoln's body...
Fighting Civil War Counterfeiting
With the outbreak of the Civil War, counterfeiters took the opportunity to increase their activity and pass their versions of the new national currency.
“By...