Indiana's Lew Wallace led a grand life, negotiating with Billy the Kid in New Mexico, serving as America's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and, of course, authoring “Ben-Hur,” one of the most popular novels of all time. But the most dramatic chapte... ...
“Anywhere there is strife or civil war in the world, the United States sends its arms,” Cornish says. “Sometimes we sell them to both sides. You don’t think people in West Baltimore understand that? West Baltimore, East Baltimore, some of these neighborhoods, they are war zones. Wh...
Cutting an approximately 820-mile-long path throughIllinois,Indiana,Maryland,Ohio,Pennsylvania, andWest Virginia, theNational Roadwas built between 1811 and 1834 and was the first federally funded road in U.S. history.PresidentsGeorge WashingtonandThomas Jeffersonbelieved a trans-Appalachian road was ne...
Army. Through all the pro-choice rallies, gay rights demonstrations, anti-war protests, and animal rights events I went to in the 90’s never once did I see the destruction of federal government property. I’d never been directly connected to such brazen civil disobedience until spending an ...