As a young nation, Americans drank far more than they do today, starting in the morning with an “eye opener” and finishing the day with a “nightcap.” ...

Ronald Reagan (Captain) — Reagan breaks our string of Navy officers, as he joined the Army Reserve in April 1937. He was ...

Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...