Fort Taylor, Key West: Imprisonment in Paradise
Fort Taylor, on the southwest tip of Key West, overlooks the confluence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cruise ships pass, and fade into...
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Republican Motherhood
In many ways, the American Revolution saw women acting far outside their traditional gender roles. While men left their homes, farms, and businesses...
Black Spies of the American Revolution
Even 250 years after the events of the American Revolution, there is much that historians are still piecing together about the activities of spies...
Weathering the Storm: The Battle of Rhode Island
Learn more about the Battle of Road Island, planned as a combined operation between the Americans and their new French allies, to trap and defeat a...
Viva Lafayette: Hero of Two Worlds
Excerpt from "Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution" by Mike Duncan
Virginia House of Burgesses
In 2019, Virginia celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first representative legislative assembly in North America. While the idea of representation...
“Closely Connected with the Welfare of the Republic”
After the Old Hagerstown Pike passes the Miller farm on the right, the road takes a right-hand turn of almost ninety degrees and changes its name to...
“In Letters of Iron”
In a quiet ravine on the eastern side of the Shiloh Battlefield stands a solitary red iron marker. It is easily missed by all but the most resolute...
Civil War Veterans and Their Monuments
On September 14, 1887, 40 survivors of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry gathered atop Blocher’s Knoll, the deadly perch they attempted to defend on...
Considering Civil War Battlefield Monuments as Artworks
In the years and decades after the Civil War, thousands of monuments were raised on battlefields north and south (as well as in cemeteries, city parks...
Tributes Etched in Stone
Monuments are an important part of any battlefield landscape. They not only remind us of important events, but they show us where those events...
Camp Letterman at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The result was a total of more than 51,000 combined casualties. About 14,000...