George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was born into a tumultuous family oft engaged in power struggles. His death on February ...
One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...
About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ...
Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...