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Battle of New Orleans influenced the Battle of Waterloo
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe new Ridley Scott movie Napoleon aroused some thoughts regarding the Battle of Waterloo, so famous in history and so well depicted in the movie, despite the film’s many historical inaccuracies ...
Voices: The Top 10 songs about historical events
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 year agoThis list was borrowed from Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose book The World includes the claim that “Sympathy for the Devil” is “the best history song of...
The Illiberalism at America’s Core
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoFor much of the twentieth century, the American right was suspiciously absent from historians’ grand narratives of the United States. In the early Cold...
On This Day, Jan. 8: 6 killed, 13 injured including Rep. Giffords in shooting
United Press International via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPima County, Ariz., Sheriff's deputies stand guard at the entranceway to the assassination site one...
Bridges Texas History column: Lubbock brothers played key parts in Civil War, politics
Amarillo Globe-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTwo orphaned brothers headed west in search of adventure and a new life. The story is common in the...
With cars and kaiju, artists Umar Rashid and Frieda Toranzo Jaeger subvert American myth
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1816, Kentucky-born portraitist William Edward West created a print depicting the battlefield death of British Maj. Gen. Edward Michael Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. At the time, ...
Built in the 1800s, this Mississippi mansion was the last of its kind on the Coast
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoElmwood Manor, once among the oldest structures in Bay St. Louis possessed a history that set it...
Purging old heroes drives us further apart | Opinion
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe National Forest Service is considering changing the name of Wayne National Forest, three separate areas in southeastern Ohio, to Buckeye Forest....
Sherman’s Hard Truths About War Ring True Today
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 6 months ago(Photo from Wikimedia Commons) In September 1864, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman occupied Atlanta and warned citizens to evacuate before he burned the...
Dale C. Maley: Three War of 1812 veterans called Fairbury home
Daily Leader via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe 13 American colonies initiated the Revolutionary War against Great Britain over their objection to Parliament's taxation policies and lack of colonial representation. The Revolutionary War ...
