Notes From The Frontier

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

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.

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

One Native man reached the very highest echelons of white power and, in 1865, penned the final surrender terms of the Civil War.

In frontier America, quilts were a way for women to gain immortality.

Most Americans know Uncle Sam as a tall, upstanding, elderly man, stern-faced, gritty, with a white beard and mutton chops.