Even the universal warning symbol for biological hazards looks threatening with the claw-like shapes ready to latch on or bite unsuspecting victims. Biological warfare can…
With the exception of WW I’s famous Christmas Truce in 1914, Christmas war is more common that Christmas peace.
Historian Stephen Ambrose says with a little bit of luck, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer could have been elected president of the United States, IF…
Americans have been rioting for a long time. Five civilians died when British troops fired on demonstrators in Boston, Mass., on March 5, 1770. This…
My son Glenn Peterson, his wife Amanda, and their two daughters Jane and Anne took me to the newly renovated St. Louis Soldiers Memorial. The…
Visitors to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor can help raise a giant American flag. The 33-star flag (outdated already because Kansas had been admitted as…
Then as now, when Confederate General-in-Chief Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9,…