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The Charge at Gettysburg [Civil War]

When night fell, the Union flags waved in triumph on the field of Gettysburg, but over 30,000 men lay dead or wounded, strewn through wood and meadow, on field and hill, where the three days' fight had surged.

Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech [Civil War]

"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."

General Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign [Civil War]

General Ulysses S. Grant's campaign against Vicksburg was the most brilliant single campaign of the Civil War.

Hampton Roads [Civil War]

Also known as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac, the Battle of Hampton Roads during the Civil War was the first battle between ironclad warships.

The "General Armstrong" Privateer (War of 1812) [American Independence/New Republic]

In September 1814, in the Portuguese port of Fayal, of the Azores, a crew of American privateersmen defended the brig General Armstrong against an overwhelming British force.

Teddy Roosevelt's Americanism [America/Americana]

Theodore Roosevelt delivered the speech Americanism in an address before the Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall, October 12, 1915.

Farragut at Mobile Bay [Civil War]

The Battle of Mobile Bay marked a victory for the Union during the Civil War, and is best remembered for Rear Admiral Farragut's successful maneuver through a minefield, and his famous command, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead".

The Army and Navy Spread Their Wings [Aviation]

It was in 1905 the Wright Brothers first offered the Army a license to use their patents. In September 1908, Orville & Wilbur were the only ones who put in an appearance with an airplane for the Army trials...

America Becomes Air-Minded [Aviation]

As the summer of 1910 rolled around, the flights of F. W. Baldwin and Glenn Curtiss, as well as the recognition accorded the Wrights by the Army, kindled at last the public imagination.

Science Explains Babe Ruth's Home Runs [Vintage Sports]

A 1920 article from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, written by professor and physicist A.L. Hodges, describes the science behind baseball legend Babe Ruth's batting ability.

Boxer Tommy Burns Knocks Out Bill Squires (1907) [Vintage Sports]

A vintage film of the legendary heavyweight prize boxing match between Bill Squires and Tommy Burns, played out at Ocean View, California, on July 4th 1907

Thomas Edison's "The Ball Game" (1898) [Vintage Sports]

On May 20, 1898, Thomas Edison filmed "The Ball Game" at Newark, New Jersey. The footage features the first moving images of a baseball game.

Samuel Adams & The Boston Tea Party [American Independence]

In 1767, Parliament levied new taxes, in part to pay for maintaining an English army in America. The colonists, believing the King would use this army to compel them to do as he willed, rebelled by throwing the taxed-tea into the Boston Harbor.