The horse was once as essential to Western life as the six-gun, and breaking horses was once a necessary skill, even a business for a few tough, enterprising souls. Eventually it became a competitive rodeo event in which working cowboys […]
The One and Only ‘Booger’ Was Among History’s Best Rodeo Performers Read More »
Each room on the tour now has a “reader rail” that provides historical information and context. Erin Scott / White House Each week, roughly 10,000 visitors tour the White House. However, Jill Biden wasn’t convinced they were getting enough out
By Stacy Ferguson The American Revolution was a crucible that forged timeless leaders from ordinary men. We love to read about, study, analyze, and debate about the men who were born into affluence and influence—Washington, Hancock, and Lafayette, amongst others,
The General Who Won the Revolution in South Carolina – The History List Read More »
October 22, 2024 by Taylor Carr-Howard Our 2023 John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship winner, Taylor Carr-Howard, provides an update from the field. As the 2023 recipient of the John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship, I traveled to Morocco, France, and Tunisia
News – Digging Through Archaeological Photography and the Colonial Past Read More »
Researchers have developed a new type of memory cell that can both store information and do high-speed, high-efficiency calculations. The memory cell enables users to run high-speed computations inside the memory array, researchers reported Oct. 23 in the journal Nature
“The First World War saw the first widespread use of propaganda to stir patriotic fervour,” note Gill Saunders and Margaret Timmers in The Poster: A Visual History. “The need to raise vast sums of money from the public purse to
“The party that [Trump] has remade in his image is not going to change overnight, no matter what happens next week.” Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic November 2, 2024, 10:51 AM ET Editor’s Note: Washington Week With The
What Comes Next for the Democratic and Republican Parties Read More »
At the end of October, a trim and smiling Joe Biden, no longer the Democratic candidate but still the President, delivered some pizzas to a few dozen phone-bankers at a union hall in western Pennsylvania. It was exactly the sort
Key Moments from the Donald Trump–Kamala Harris 2024 Presidential Election Read More »
1. Cody Family Moves to Kansas Will was born in Iowa Territory in 1846. In 1854 father Isaac moved the family to Kansas Territory in search of a better life. There young Will watched a wagon train embarking on the Oregon
10 Pivotal Events in the Life of Buffalo Bill Read More »
One of the sandstone statues recently discovered at Angkor Thom’s Royal Palace Phouk Chea, Yi Sotha and the excavation team During a recent excavation, a team of archaeologists searching the structure of Angkor Thom’s iconic Royal Palace in Cambodia for
Archaeologists Stumble Upon 900-Year-Old Door Guardian Statues in Cambodia Read More »
