according to investigators in North Carolina. The destruction happened July 27 on the grounds of Fort Dobbs State Historic Site, which housed soldiers during the French and Indian War. The 60-acre ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected ... The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed ...

In the literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as ...

Some 1.3 million Indian soldiers served in World War One Approximately 1.3 million ... with the powerful and famous - the list included French President Raymond Poincaré, the French Army's ...

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply South ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the ... The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His victory, without ...

For this story, rather than parse the building, a handsome, rousing success, or the sculpture of Lincoln ... French’s home and studio in Stockbridge in the Berkshires in western ... The laws of ...

New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the ...

An American outlaw takes on the British army in The Patriot. After fighting in the French and Indian War, South Carolina resident Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) wants nothing to do with the ...

The higher the cost of living in a state, the harder it can be to make ends meet. This metric is determined using regional price parity data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which measures ...

Mr. Vorenberg teaches at Brown University and is the author of the forthcoming book “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The Democratic National Convention is over.