John André
While Benedict Arnold is the best-known traitor in American history and lived, Arnold’s British confidant and accomplice in the plot to turn the...
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Who Was Peggy Shippen: The "It Girl" Spy
VIDEO | Spies: Their names became a by word for betrayal. They were tortured. Hanged. And their bodies strung up in public. Why did Philadelphia "It...
Execution Of Gabriel
Near here is the early site of the Richmond gallows and "Burial Ground for Negroes." On 10 Oct. 1800, Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith from Brookfield...
Historic Tappan
Just north of the New Jersey border, Tappan, New York is the site where one of the greatest historical betrayals, that of Benedict Arnold, was...
Black Kettle
Black Kettle was a Cheyenne Indian leader during the mid-1800’s. Not many specifics of his life are known prior to 1854, when he began to attend...
Virginia at War: Part III
By early 1864, Lincoln recognized the need for an all-controlling hand to end the war. His chances of remaining president were slim as long as...
10 Facts: The United States Military Academy at West Point
Fact #1: West Point is the oldest continuously operated Army post in the United States. American soldiers first occupied West Point on January 27...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Described by historians as the most consequential piece of legislation ever passed, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 represented a pivotal moment in...
John Stark
Born August 28th, 1728, in Nutfield, New Hampshire, Maj. Gen. John Stark would grow to be a man that fully embodied the words, “Live free or die...
Benedict Arnold
The name Benedict Arnold is synonymous in American history with the word traitor. His name is almost a synonym for treasonous behavior so despicable...