Abolitionist John Brown wasn't born in Kansas, but made his mark during the Bleeding Kansas era before the Civil War. Today, ...

We take a tour of Balmoral, the private royal castle in the Scottish Highlands beloved by the entire British Royal Family, as ...

The Civil War is said to have officially started at Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861, but Bleeding Kansas had been home ...

Cape Girardeau's Dr. Wilson Brown became Missouri's lieutenant governor in 1852. For his service to the state, the ...

However unusual their nominations, Buchanan and Fillmore together embodied the nineteenth-century political system as it had been for decades. In this respect they did not suit the temper of the ...

In life and in death, Vernon Lee has always been something of an anomaly. An Englishwoman by birth living in continental ...

Burlington has always been synonymous with the railroad and a miniature scale of this history is nestled in a building across ...

Everyone has that unpleasant relative–let’s call him Uncle Pete–who comes to Thanksgiving dinner and spoils the mood by ...

The couple bought Balmoral in Scotland and from 1853 to 1856 Albert supervised the building ... She became very close to John Brown, a servant at Balmoral Castle, even though her children resented ...

Grasmere village is many visitors’ favourite Lakeland location at what many consider to be the heart of the Lake District. Nestled beneath Helm Crag – the Lion and the Lamb – the area is criss-crossed ...

South Alabama's John Broom made a layup for the first points of the game, but the Rebels hit four early 3-pointers to spring ...