"Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest” recounts the “terrible wreck” of the American barque Industry on the Columbia River Bar on March 16, 1865. After two weeks of rough weather ...

Lincoln died on April 15, 1865, and it was Nichols who drafted and ... of 30 days of mourning and lowering of the American flag to half-staff. “Acting under Stanton’s orders, Nichols directed ...

Every year on March 1, South Koreans commemorate the anniversary of the 1919 March 1 Movement, a nationwide uprising against ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner" became our National Anthem on March 3, 1931. Here's a closer look at Francis Scott Key's masterpiece.

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. It details his humble beginnings in ...

The owner of a historic South Coast pub has unveiled a million-dollar plan to revamp the century-old venue, adding additional ...

Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were told, are exactly ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

The shadow of the Washington Monument towers over “In America: Remember,” an art installation that features flags for every U ...

They raised the first secession flag in the South ... It is also where he issued, on Jan. 16, 1865, his legendary Field Orders, No. 15, the first attempt to provide a form of reparation to ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

All four stanzas end the same way, with the American flag flying "O'er the land of the ... but it wasn't until 1865 that Congress decided that "it shall be lawful for the director of the mint ...