We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Indian Fights and Fighters, by Cyrus Townsend Brady (published 1904) I. The Original “Rough Riders” No one will question the sweeping assertion that the grittiest
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William Alexander Anderson “Bigfoot” Wallace was born in Virginia in 1817, where he remained until 1836, when he learned that his brother, who had gone to Texas, had been killed in the Goliad
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Victorian Worthies, by G.H. Blore (published 1920). All spelling in the original. The famous Napier brothers, Charles, George, and William, came of no mean parentage.
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Soul of the Soldier: Sketches from the Western Battle-Front, by Thomas Tiplady (published 1918). Tiplady was a chaplain serving with the British Expeditionary Force
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Haiti is arguably the genesis of America and her civic problems. In the Haiti’s indigenous Taino language, Haiti means “mother of the Earth.” Its root word, Ayiti, means “land of high mountains.”
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Hunting the Grizzly and Other Sketches, by Theodore Roosevelt (published 1902). In the United States the peccary is only found in the southernmost corner of
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Why did the American South drag their feet so long before the Civil War, refusing to give up the institution of slavery? After all, the South did not oppose the idea of
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy (published 1851). A broad expanse of plains, the Campi Catalaunici
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