South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001, chose it ...

has two simple marble sarcophagi -- one is George Washington's, the other Martha's. Americans came to pay their respects throughout the early 1800s. When the Civil War started, they kept coming ...

Is that a call for a civil war? Kinda sounds like it to me ... Advertisement Interestingly, George Washington warned against political parties. He knew they would be divisive (they already ...

George Washington was born on Feb. 22 ... 1861: The monument’s grounds are used to house livestock during the Civil War. 1876: Ownership transfered to the federal government.

Famous for leading the ill-fated "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg, George Pickett ... the Mexican-American War and on the frontier, along the Texas border and in Washington Territory.

George Washington ... Another thorn in Washington’s side was the Spanish right of deposit in the port of New Orleans, LA, which, since 1763, had been part of the Spanish empire. Major Acts To avoid ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington ... Horton Foote, George Plimpton, Philip Bosco ...