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The Northwest Ordinance was enacted by the Confederation Congress of the United States on 13 July 1787. It created the Northwest Territory – comprised of the modern-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin...

The Overland Campaign (4 May to 12 June 1864) was a major Union offensive into Virginia, launched during the final year of the American Civil War (1861-1865). It saw the Union Army...

Where did paper money come from? Despite it seeming like a modern invention, its origins go back to Ancient China. And, despite it now being hard to think of a world without paper money, in...

Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a US politician and abolitionist, who rose to prominence in the 1860s during the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras. A leader of the abolitionist wing of the Republican Party...

Death of the Confederate General Zollicoffer, in the Battle of Mill Spring, KY, January 19th, 1862, illustration appearing in Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War, 1894.

Portrait of confederate General Felix Zollicoffer, photograph, c. 1860s.

Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard in 1861. This portrait is a copy by artist Thomas Cantwell Healy of an original work by his brother George Peter Alexander Healy. It is the property of the Louisiana...

The Founding Fathers of the United States were the leaders of the American Revolution (c. 1765-1789), who led the push for American independence from Great Britain, founded the United States, and oversaw the implementation...

George H. Thomas (1816 to 1870) was a Union general in the American Civil War who first came to national attention after his victory at the Battle of Mill Springs (19 January 1862) in Kentucky, the...

At the Battle of Mill Springs (19 January 1862) in Kentucky, Union Brigadier General George H. Thomas had originally planned to strike first, advancing from Logan's...