Articles related to "President Davis"

During the Mexican War, Jefferson Davis becomes known as The Hero of Buena Vista. The American Civil War begins and he is made President of the Confederacy.

The Civil War was not just a white man's war...it involved dozens of Native American tribes, which fought for their own independence. This is the story of the Cherokee.

The plain gray stucco neoclassical mansion housed war conferences. It also witnessed the death of a child and a visit by Abraham Lincoln.

Helen Keller has ousted Confederate officer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall collection, but the building abounds in Confederate heroes.

The torpedo was an ingenious weapon designed to mimic a piece of coal destined for a steamer's boiler. It was virtually undetectable and caused devastating explosions.

In the post-9/11 world, there has been much talk about suspended freedoms and loss of civil liberties, and the "abolishment" of habeas corpus. But what does this mean?

He was both an Indian and a white man. A Seneca Chief and a Union Colonel. The first Native American to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs. This is Ely Parker.

Rose Greenhow was a prominent leader in Washington society who helped the Confederacy from both inside and outside the U.S. capital.