Did Abraham Lincoln love his wife? Or was he instead forever emotionally faithful to the memory of his first true love, a woman by the name of Ann Mayes Rutledge? Is this another American legend, like that of Paul Bunyan? The truth, as always, lies somewhere in the middle, but the way that this story …
Every February, American children from all over their country are treated to the dusty facts regarding the sixteenth president of the United States — that of good ol’ Abe Lincoln, he of simple beginnings and Civil War stewardship. The guy was tall; he freed the slaves; he was killed while attending a theater performance. What …
As the last of the apple blossoms were swept away by the groundskeepers, and the slight chill that had been in the Michigan air for over 6 months was finally gone, hundreds of young men scrambled this way and that, desperately trying to make it to their final exams. A young man named James H. …
Nathan Bedford Forrest, a name synonymous with both military brilliance and contentious legacy, occupies a complex place in American history. Born into the antebellum South, his life unfolded against the backdrop of some of the United States’ most turbulent eras, reflecting the paradoxes of a nation divided by civil war and struggling with the aftermath …