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In flogging, the most common means of enforcing discipline in the early U.S. Navy, a cat-o-nine-tails, a whip composed of […]

Thomas Crapper (28 September 1836; died 27 January 1910) was an English businessman and plumber. He founded Thomas Crapper &

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II. Though British in

In 1638, Mrs. Glover set up America’s first press at the Massachusetts Colony’s new college, Harvard. Mrs. Glover and her

Commander James Harmon Ward (September 25, 1806 – June 27, 1861) was the first officer of the United States Navy

The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the

Richard Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal

Mickey Rooney (born Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, producer, radio

Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 – September 22, 1776) was an American soldier and spy for the Continental Army during

John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900) was a United States Army engineer and a Union general