Never has an American trial produced such an impressive set of key players: the defendant-- Aaron Burr, founding father, Vice President, and slayer of...
1 The officers and crew of the Tecora waited at sea for darkness to come to Cuba. Closer to shore, British cruisers patrolled the waters looking for s...
The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the mos...
The arrest, trial, and execution of John Brown in the fall of 1859 came at a critical moment in United State history. According to historian David S. ...
A framed photograph of the scene depicted on this homepage, the execution of thirty-eight Sioux on December 26, 1862, used to fascinate me when, as a ...
APRIL 14, 1865 For President Abraham Lincoln, things looked brighter on Friday, April 14, 1865 than they had for a long time. Five days earlier, Gener...
In May, 1868, the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment tria...
"Susan B. Anthony is not on trial; the United States is on trial."--Matilda Joslyn Gage More than any other woman of her generation, Susan B...
Called "the darkest deed of the nineteenth century," the brutal 1857 murder of 120 men, women, and children at a place in southern Utah call...
The Old West's most famous gun battle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men dead, three other men shot, and enough questions t...