The Many One-term Presidents
Americans may be surprised to learn that our history includes as many one-term Presidents as those who have served even parts of two terms....
The Vendetta Ride of Wyatt Earp and His Immortals
As an outcome of the infamous Fight at the O.K. Corral, unknown individuals wounded Virgil, Wyatt’s older brother, and killed Morgan, the youngest Earp....
War of 1812: The Battle of Stoney Creek, June 6, 1813
After he abandoned Fort George, Brigadier General John Vincent retreated south along the Niagara River towards Fort Erie. His senior officers, however, convinced him...
The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone
In September 1778, during the American Revolution, a combined Shawnee and British force attacked the frontier fortress at Boonesborough, Kentucky. Daniel Boone, the town’s...
Regime Change in Tripoli? Part 2
By the spring of 1804, the young Republic of the United States of America was struggling to find her place in the world of...
Regime Change in Tripoli? Part 1
The events of the last few days in Tripoli are in many ways quite reminiscent of events which took place in that North African...
Turchin: Russian American Civil War General
Ivan Vasilievich Turchaninov was a direct descendant from a long line of Don Cossacks best described as Russia’s famed frontier fighting force. A...
The Death of James A. Garfield, 1881
Garfield was another of those Dark Horse Presidents of the nineteenth century, barely known outside his immediate circle of Congressional peers. Having the almost-imperative...
Franklin Roosevelt and the Coming of World War II
On the morning of December 4, 1941, the early edition of the Times-Herald sold out on the streets of Washington, DC. Chesly Manly’s expose...
The American Invasion of England
John Paul Jones, one of the founders of the American Navy, learned his trade as a sailor in the port of Whitehaven in Cumbria...