Column: Celebrate bicentennial of Lafayette’s triumphant return to the U.S.
Lafayette Day, March 14, will honor a key figure in the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his farewell tour of ...
Sun Journal6dOpinion
How an Auburn man started a pro-North newspaper in London during the Civil War
John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...
The Virginian-Pilot6d
Column: Celebrate bicentennial of Lafayette’s triumphant return to the U.S.
Lafayette’s final trip to America lasted from August 1824 to September 1825 ... Lafayette met with former Presidents John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and Presidents James Monroe ...
Chapelboro4d
Past Rhymes With Present Times: Lafayette, Napoleon, and Trumpism
Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...
Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)6d
First call out for new Hartlepool lifeboat
The all weather lifeboat 'John Sharp' launched in thick fog at 7.56am and was alongside the casualty vessel 15 minutes later ...
Electoral College for dummies
As you will be reminded countless times, when you cast your vote in Tuesday's presidential election, you're not taking part in a nationwide popular vote, but rather helping decide who your state's ...
New Hartlepool RNLI lifeboat rescues fishing vessel
Hartlepool RNLI's new lifeboat was launched for the first time to rescue a fishing vessel with engine problems.
The Knoxville Focus5d
Peggy Eaton: The Woman Who Brought Down A Cabinet
Jackson had won the popular vote for the presidency in 1824, only to lose the election to Secretary of State John Quincy Adams when the election was decided in the U. S. House of Representatives. “Old ...
Alien and Sedition Acts were reviled in their time, and John Adams was not sorry to see them go
John Adams signed the Sedition Act in an attempt to silence dissent. Some other Founding Fathers thought that muzzling the ...