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Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...
Who Really Won the War of 1812? 🇺🇸🇨🇦 A war with no clear victor — or was there? The answer might surprise you… and rewrite what you thought you knew about history.
President Donald Trump 's lawyers referenced the War of 1812 in legal documents related to California Governor Gavin Newsom 's National Guard case. Writing in a response to a U.S. district court ...
Crowds flocked to Castle Island to check out Old Ironsides and her annual Fourth of July turnaround in Boston Harbor, along ...
On June 4, 1812, the House of Representatives voted 79 to 49 to declare war against Great Britain. In the next two weeks, the U.S. Senate debated the House's bill and on June 17, by a vote of 19 ...
Brian M. Linn, “‘The American Way of War’ Revisited,” Journal of Military History 66, no. 2 (April 2002): 501–33. 2. For a more detailed definition and analysis of the concept of a “way of warfare,” ...
Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?
Americans across all 50 states are prepping for the Fourth of July and, of course, the rousing celebrations that come with it ...
The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it in his first State of the Union to Congress in December 1817.
From Where I Sit is an ongoing series written by regular guest columnists who represent a range of Yakima Valley voices and ...
The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics ...