Who would have thought that two politicians born less than a year apart and in the same state would face off in America’s bloodiest war? Abraham Lincoln, arguably the United States most popular president, and Jefferson Davis, the Confederate’s mo...
Private Daniel Hough awoke the morning of April 12th, 1861, to the batteries of confederate artillery. For 33 hours the newly formed confederate army bombarded the Union’s Fort Sumter with mortars. Realizing the situation was hopeless, the Uni...
In 2002, chess nuts around the globe went agog when a chess piece dated circa 465 AD was discovered. For some it was the thrill of narrowing the history of the game that was appealing. Others may have just thought it was a pretty cool find. Whethe...