Notes From The Frontier

By the year 1900, about a fifth of all workers in the U.S. were under 16 years of age.  In southern cotton mills, 25 percent of the...

While war weapons during the Civil War had advanced in destructiveness, medical technology had not kept pace.

Elizabeth Custer said of the great Hunkpapa Chief: "I never in my life dreamed there could be...so fine a specimen of warrior as Gall."

For most Americans, today—Labor Day—is the last hurrah of summer—picnics, bar-b-que, that last summer weekend party before autumn.

The first Thanksgiving in North American is popularly believed to have taken place at Plymouth Colony in 1621 with Pilgrims and Wampanoag.

Seven score and 16 years ago today, on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave his immortal speech.

The 612 acres that today comprise Arlington National Cemetery was once the plantation and Greek Revival mansion of General Robert E Lee.

Paul Mueller’s reign of terror between 1898 and 1912 included more than 25 cases and probably more than 100 victims from coast to coast.

After the Lizzie Borden axe murders in 1892, an epidemic of axe murders ravaged the country for about twenty years.

Nearly everyone has heard of the sensational Lizzie Borden axe murder case of 1892 but, Iowa had a case that was far worse.

Everyone is fascinated by ghost stories. In celebration of Halloween, Notes from the Frontier will take you on a virtual tour.

She’s been called the Mother of Exiles, Lady of the Harbor, Lady Liberty, the Green Goddess, Mother of Freedom, The Statue of Liberty.

We all recognize and celebrate July 4th as the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

It is the deadliest building fire in U.S. history but most people have never heard of it.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of America’s first animal shelter in 1869 in Philadelphia.

Once trunked titans 15 feet tall, weighing up to ten tons, with monstrous tusks 20 feet long roamed North America from sea to sea.

Hispanic history in the United States has often been largely passed over.

The legacy of American brand names also tells the story of America’s growth and expansion marching across the continent.

The cogs of the Industrial Revolution loomed grinding and monstrous over the individual worker and killed workers at spectacular rate.

Women have always worked but during the Industrial Revolution, they flocked to the cities in droves to work in factories.