Category: History Facts

It is hard to believe that 52 years have passed since the start of the Tet Offensive. For those of us who were there, it seems like only yesterday that … Read More

Reconnaissance aircraft had spotted a strong Viet Cong force dug in and ready to defend a weapons cache near Saigon. Our unit’s mission was to destroy it. A couple of … Read More

The failure of John Brown’s rebellion sent surviving freeman Osborne Anderson on a harrowing journey THINGS WERE spiraling out of control for John Brown. From less than 100 yards away, … Read More

Viet Cong intelligence officers prepared a list of ‘cruel tyrants and reactionary elements’ to be rounded up in Hue during the early hours of the attack. As dawn broke on … Read More

It was illegal for this Army private to serve in the U.S. military. During a tour of duty with Company A of the 38th Infantry, one of the all-black Army … Read More

High-pressure hydraulic mining operations send toxic sludge down rivers, inundating towns and farms On January 19, 1875, levees enclosing Marysville, California, failed, allowing the flooding Feather and Yuba Rivers into … Read More

Yick Wo v. Hopkins established fair implementation of statutes   In the summer of 1885, Lee Yick, a Chinese citizen operating a laundry in San Francisco, California, refused to pay a … Read More

Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867. The shadows were lengthening on a … Read More

Private Eddie Slovik, executed for desertion in 1945, has been memorialized in print and film as an unwitting sufferer of a cruel army. A deeper look, though, reveals a different … Read More

Most people know what happened to the Donner Party, a group of settlers led by George Donner and James F. Reed, once they reached Alder Creek, California, in the Sierra … Read More