Autor: Scott Martelle

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Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, it grew as agriculture expanded on …

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them …

Union cavalryman Boston Corbett became a national celebrity after killing John Wilkes Booth, but as details of his odd personality became known, he also became the object of derision. Over time, he w …

In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them …

On July 20, 1792, the body of Admiral John Paul Jones, Father of the American Navy, was buried in the Saint Louis Cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. As the French Revolution was gathering steam, the …

As the French Revolution gathered steam, the exact location of Jones’s grave-and, in fact, the exact location of St. Louis cemetery in Paris, where he was buried in 1792-was forgotten: information on …

A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at a year in American history that still resonates today, 1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America tells the story of a battered nation fighting for its o …

Sixty years ago political divisions in the United States ran even deeper than today’s name-calling showdowns between the left and right. Back then, to call someone a communist was to threaten that pe …