There was a time when the United States was aligned in purpose, thought, and action. War ration booklets of World War...

A Northern Army soldier, Samuel Carter, was recovering from illness and injury in an Alexandria, Virginia Civil War...

Constant Austin was a slight man. I imagine that his unique name once made him popular as a bartender in New York City....

The year was 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of The Union address, and the Supreme Court met for the...

You've heard the story before, right? Allegedly, George Washington received a hatchet as a birthday gift, and he...

It was June 1800, and the country was still very much in mourning after George Washington's death six months before....

As the Civil War churned on, in 1864, Private John M. Lovejoy stopped briefly in Alexandria to write a letter to his...

The year was 1789, and it was an eventful year. The first presidential election had just been held, and after a short...

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...