One of the defining events of U.S. history is the Civil War, which lasted almost exactly four years, from April 12, 1861 to ...

Cinema has always had a love affair with the wars of America’s past. And no conflict is more cinematic than the American ...

Daniel J. Evans, a moderate Republican who dominated Washington state politics as a three-term governor and a U.S. senator ...

In 2011, Thomas ... Daniel Jackson Evans was born in Seattle on Oct. 16, 1925, to Daniel Lester Evans, a civil engineer, and Irma (Ide) Evans. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in ...

Dr. Brian Steel Wills, an award-winning author of American Civil War History, will be presenting "The Logic of Logistics: ...

When the US Constitution was written in 1787, the Electoral College was created to pick the US president using a majority ...

Joseph Hilton, a Confederate general and an extremely wealthy lumber baron, after summering at River Hook for eighteen years, ...

Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, unsuccessfully tried to shoot the president with pistols in 1835, according to ...

One of the stranger legends surrounding the controversial Confederate general Stonewall Jackson is the fact that Jackson's ...

Plenty of directors emulate his style, but it’s safe to say that there is no director as bold, original, or controversial as ...

Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) William Campbell. Courtesy of Kings Mountain National Park. He was a ...

In an election year, there’s plenty of hand-wringing about our lack of faith in Washington. But it’s all part of the messy ...