San Juan Island National Historical Park, Lime Kiln, Sculpture Park and more On our first full day on the island we set out for San Juan Island National Historical Park, a National Park Service site ...

The World Wars, the moon landing, the invention of the internet, the fall of empires, and civil rights revolutions — history has no shortage of epic, world-altering events. This article is not about ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This clip details the background of Northwest Washington's Pig War. This bellringer highlights the causes, events, and effects of the small skirmish ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,307,677-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Pig War (1859) What it’s about: Sadly, not a war between two rival armies made up of talking ...

Little known fact: Pigs might have helped to save the fiscal pork of Texas. History advocate Lanny Ottosen shared this fresh — or refreshed — insight into the famous 1841 Pig War between Austin hotel ...

In 1859, when an American farmer shot a pig on an island that both Britain and America claimed, a twelve-year-long standoff known as the Pig War began. From: AERIAL ...

We all know that the old "Oregon Territory" included the state of Washington. But one old map I saw had Oregon running north almost to Alaska. Did Manifest Destiny reverse itself, or did we lose a war ...

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The world shared a sigh of relief last month, when the U.S. stood down from launching military strikes against Iran. That region is so volatile, it wouldn’t take much to spark full-fledged war. And it ...

I’ll be glad if I never hear John McCain’s name again, but his death made me look back and try once more to understand the US War with the Vietnamese People’s Army, whose anti-aircraft gunners shot ...