And then there’s the story of President Harry S. Truman’s famous night at Excelsior Spring’s premiere hotel the Elms.

The 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment was recruited by Jim Lane before he had proper authority to do so. Lane asked Washington

Worried about the Army's ability to move men and equipment between military bases, an Army convoy was ordered to travel coast to coast...

The Americans joined the war after President Wilson and Congress concluded now was the right time to step in and assist in saving the Allies

One notable assignment was as a Lieutenant with the 6th-colored cavalry, the Buffalo Soldiers. They were sent to Cuba in support of Teddy...

Living in 1783 Paris, the Montgolfier brothers are considered the Yuri Gagarin of ballooning. Their family owned a paper manufacturing...

Seeing a little higher ground, the Peach Orchard, a couple hundred yards out, he decides, without orders, to move his troops. Big mistake...

Not to be deterred, back in Atchison, Amelia, Grace and her favorite uncle secretly built their own roller coaster off the roof of the...

Kaiser William II of Germany, for morale, decided to send hundreds of Tannenbaum trees to his troops who were in deep trenches enduring...

Minor league baseball has some of the great wacky names and mascots: The Hartford Yard Goats, Lansing Lug Nuts, Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimps..

That night both sides realized the enormous cost of the day's fighting. The dead and dying still littered the field as medical teams did...

To remind Americans how fortunate they were even when the country seemed to be falling apart with many families having a loved one on...

On April 6 and 7,1862, two armies fought on the banks of the Tennessee River in a bloodbath that saw as many casualties as the Battle of...

Even in Poland, Irena’s story had remained dormant and forgotten until the girls showed new light from a different generation...

Warsaw, Poland, had the largest population of Jews in Europe. In September of 1939 after swiftly conquering Poland and employing perverse...

Back in the day, saloons weren’t fancy like on Hollywood sets. Tents, lean-to’s, dugouts and caves all dotted the West...

The South considered Brown an enormous threat. Since Nat Turner’s Virginia slave rebellion in 1831 where 50-plus individuals from white...

That led to my first question when I visited Grady Atwater, the Director of the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas, “Was John Brown...

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been able to understand the Richter Scale. Why couldn't they just give us a 1-10 on how bad it was?

The Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka will soon be on the Vegas Strip or in a theme park, it’s that good. Movies, TV shows, pinball machines...