The complete guide to West Point
If you’re heading to West Point as a cadet, congratulations! You’re about to embark on the most rewarding and rigorous experience of your life so far. West Point Academy is…
Top 5 hobbies the founding fathers enjoyed that you didn’t know about
While our founding fathers have the credit for getting the U.S. to where it is, they were merely ordinary people with normal human characteristics and personality defects. They experienced love,…
Today in military history: Emancipation Proclamation
On Sep. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, which would free more than 3 million Black souls from slavery in the United States. Many associate slavery…
Thomas Jefferson famously edited his Bible based on believability
We’ve all read things that we considered to be unbelievable — but how often do you take the effort to alter the entire book? That’s exactly what Thomas Jefferson is…
This is why the US doesn’t use the metric system
In 1793, noted French scientist Joseph Dombey departed Le Havre, France bound for Philadelphia. His mission was to meet with Thomas Jefferson and give him two of the rarest items on Earth. Unfortunately for Dombey, fate had other intentions and stor…