An article about the Connecticut Kansas Colony, an anti-slavery group preparing to settle in “Bleeding Kansas” in the mid-1850s to fight slavery... (Read More)
Maine became the 23rd state on 15 March 1820, its statehood part of the balance between pro- and anti-slavery forces known as the Missouri Compromise... (Read More)
An article about the Great Blizzard of 1888, a massive four-day storm on the East Coast that dumped up to five feet of snow!.. (Read More)
In this article – in honor of March being Women’s History Month – Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a British heroine from WWI, nurse Edith Cavell... (Read More)
An article about President Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address, on 4 March 1861, as he eloquently tried to heal divisions and avert a civil war... (Read More)
An article about Andrew Jackson’s invasion of Spanish Florida that led to Spain ceding Florida to the U.S. on 22 February 1819 in the Adams-Onis Treaty... (Read More)
An article about the near-suicidal mission of Lt. Stephen Decatur Jr. and 70 volunteers who slipped into Tripoli Harbor the night of 16 February 1804... (Read More)
On 2 February 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and granted to the United States a huge swath of Mexican territory... (Read More)
An article about the liberation of Cuba when occupying American troops relinquished control on 28 January 1909... (Read More)
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