I Wanted to Do My Part': Women as Soldiers in Civil War America After discovering that ... had adopted men’s clothing and male personas in their teens, most frequently in order to obtain better ...

But while historians have long analyzed the clothing ... hair in women’s lives — emotionally, economically, socially, and politically, in her book. Eileen Travell After the Civil War, several ...

While women were not permitted to join the army during the Civil War, there were those who found a way to slip in amongst the ...

In the Civil War South, death was omnipresent ... women announced their grief through their clothing. Wartime shortages prompted some women, unable to purchase the preferred black baize ...

The Dutch brought tea to America in the early 1600s. The record on how to host the perfect afternoon tea for an American ...

Women pose such threats ... The Taliban are a product of the war of resistance against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the Afghan civil war that befell the country following the ...

Victor Pascow in Stephen King’s “Pet Semetery.” And that was Keokuk’s Oakland Cemetery on Saturday during the Oakland ...

The Second Civil War began in 1646 ... examples of women being directly involved in the Civil Wars. Some women wore men’s clothing and armour so that they could join the fighting.

From haunted universities and hotels, to Civil War battles and phantom vehicles, there are many spooky, bone-chilling tales ...

A Connecticut museum spotlights a national movement born in Hartford that helped Lincoln win the presidency in 1860.

You don’t have to go far to find a haunted factory, the remains of an abandoned city, or learn about the state’s history of vampires.

The world-renowned club is now home to 400 displaced people — mostly women, children, and the elderly — forced from their ...