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In early April 1862, a Union army under Ulysses S. Grant camped along the Tennessee River at Pittsburg Landing, waiting for reinforcements before pushing south into Mississippi. Their camps were spread loosely across farm fields and oak woods near a small log church called Shiloh Meeting House. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston marched 44,000 men up from Corinth to hit Grant first. At dawn on Sunday, April 6, they did...
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In 1873, the low mound called Hisarlık, five kilometers inland from the Dardanelles in Ottoman Turkey, was being torn apart by a wealthy German merchant named Heinrich Schliemann. He had made a fortune in indigo, banking, and Crimean War contracts, then retired at 47 to prove that Homer’s Iliad described real places. Frank Calvert, an English-born consular agent who owned half the mound, had told him where to dig. Schliemann drove a giant trench straight down through nine buried cities, employing up to 150 Greek and Turkish villagers under an Ottoman permit that required him to split every find with the Imperial Museum in Constantinople...
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By the summer of 1804, Alexander Hamilton was a man out of power. Born poor in the Caribbean, orphaned, he had clawed his way up to become George Washington’s aide, a Revolutionary War hero at Yorktown, the author of most of the Federalist Papers, and the first Secretary of the Treasury — the man who built America’s banking system, its credit, its Coast Guard, and its Mint. But his Federalist Party was collapsing. Thomas Jefferson had beaten John Adams in 1800, and Hamilton’s own pamphlet attacking Adams had helped wreck his party. Worse, Hamilton had spent fifteen years publicly and privately calling Vice President Aaron Burr a dangerous, unprincipled man — first by throwing his influence behind Jefferson to break the deadlocked 1800 election, then by helping sink Burr’s 1804 run for governor of New York...
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Ladies and gents, gather ‘round for a lesson in how to hate a country that lets you run for office and make millions while complaining about “oppression.” These aren’t rando Twitter yobs—they’re real Democrat politicians and their campaign cheerleaders...
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In the summer of 1814, the War of 1812 came home to America. British troops burned Washington on August 24, then turned toward Baltimore, the third-largest city in the United States and a nest of privateers the Royal Navy called “a den of pirates.” Our subject is Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old Georgetown lawyer, a devout Episcopalian, a slaveholder, and a man who had opposed the war from the start. When the British seized Dr. William Beanes, an elderly physician, Key agreed to help get him back...
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In the summer of 1755, Britain and France were fighting an undeclared war over the forks of the Ohio River, where the French had built Fort Duquesne (today’s Pittsburgh). Major General Edward Braddock, a 60-year-old career officer, cut a twelve-foot road through 110 miles of mountain wilderness to take the fort with roughly 1,300 regulars, provincials, sailors, artillery, and a train of wagons and packhorses.
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