# Washington D.C.
A Sports Dispute Started the Cuban Missile Crisis and Other Odd Facts
From the unexpectedly significant role Cubans’ love of baseball had in shaping the Cold War, to the current popular drink that was once named after Hitler’s second in command, history is chock…
American Tragedy: 40 Disturbing Photographs from the Battlefields of the Civil War
In today’s world of mass image collecting and “selfies,” it is hard to imagine a world in which some sort…
Andrew Jackson’s Inaugural Reception Foreshadowed Dark Events to Come
A powerful argument can be made in support of Andrew Jackson being the most controversial person ever to serve as…
Lone Wolves: 7 Assassins Behind Failed Presidential Murder Attempts You May Not Heard Of
Over the last few decades, presidential assassination attempts have become such regular occurrences, it sometimes feels as if this was…
The Story of the Last Surviving Witness to the Lincoln Assassination
As the years go by, history grows and grows. More and more events are added to the tapestry of human…
This Day In History: Rooseveldt Announces Big Increase In Armaments Production (1942)
On this day, in 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces to the American people that he was committing America to…