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Currier&Ives Molly Pitcher by Kate Brownlee Sherwood It was hurry and scurry at Monmouth town, For Lee was beating a wild retreat; The B...

The Battle of Bunker Hill by Howard Pyle There is an edition of the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes and illustrated by Howard Pyle in electron...

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Caton Woodville The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson Half a league, half a league, Half ...

I love serendipity - it is perhaps one of the key pillars of optimisim. As reported in the October 6, 2007 edition of New Scientist (and av...

Idol at Copan by Frederick Catherwood 1841 Also in this month's (December) edition of American History is a good article on John Lloyd S...

There is an interesting article on the history of Levittown in this month's American History magazine.

Illustration of H.M.S. Victoria. Source: Index to late 18th, 19th and early 20th Century Naval and Naval Social History In last week's m...

I have a ten year old in the house learning the elements of language, so this passage seemed especially pertinent when I came across it. The...

The Birkenhead drill refers to the absolute discipline maintained by the Royal Marines as the HMS Birkenhead , having holed herself on an un...

From Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes . Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (?1539-1583) English soldier and navigator, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh...