The caption written on the photo reads, "the only fatality." I believe that it is intended to be sarcastic to point out...

I'm not a genealogist. I can use Google better than most, but that's really about it. So when it comes to tracking...

I have written about the Vowel-Smith house (pictured above) in previous articles. It was part of a group of large...

This article builds on part one and part two of this Marshall House series. Those parts do a good job of explaining the...

This article picks up where yesterday's article left off. Yesterday, I shared the front page of the New York Tribune's...

One-hundred sixty years ago today, 1,000 U.S. soldiers marched into Alexandria, Virginia, before dawn. Abraham...

One hundred seventy-two years ago, Zachary Taylor was sworn in as president, the California gold rush was just...

A unique museum exists in Alexandria, Virginia, that many people have never visited, and when it reopens in the fall...

It's 1838, just after Christmas, the Potomac River was frozen solid, and William Coates sat down to pen a letter to his...

These days, we don't think about our groceries coming from other parts of the U.S. by ship because mostly that doesn't...