A Boat Against the Current

Apr. 7, 1826—In a dense forest above a bridge in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac where they had carved out reputations as among America’s...

William Rufus King is not an instantly recognizable name, but in his extremely short tenure as Vice-President under Franklin Pierce , ...

May 30, 1806—Amid early morning fog, on the banks of the Red River in Logan County, Kentucky, Andrew Jackson —lawyer, planter, temporarily o...

July 6, 1825— William Clark Falkner , the original of one of the major characters in the fiction of great-grandson William Faulkner , was bo...