It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and recited the story of how, as Confederate troops were passing through her ...

Sgt. Gilbert Bates is shown with the flag he carried through former Confederate states after the Civil War, and later, the length of England, in a 4.5-by-6.5-inch ‘cabinet card’ made by Elliott & Fry ...

In the muggy summer of 1776, 56 men met in Philadelphia and pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to America’s future with the Declaration of Independence. None of them was a full-time ...

Every morning, millions of children put their hands over their hearts and begin the school day with a simple recitation. It’s been done for 130 years and is as much a part of American culture as apple ...

An engraving of John Greenleaf Whittier’s 1863 poem, ‘Barbara Fritchie.’ Barbara Fritchie A daguerreotype of John Greenleaf Whitter circa 1855. Barbara Fritchie A daguerreotype of John Greenleaf ...

The words once echoed through countless classrooms. “Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn; The clustered spires of Frederick stand, green-walled by the hills of ...

The words once echoed through countless classrooms. J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff. Have a historical mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth ...