Frederick Law Olmsted

Biltmore Estate Landscape Architect

As work progressed on Biltmore Estate, his last and largest private project, Frederick Law Olmsted observed, "It is a great work of peace we are engaged in and one of these days we shall all be proud ...

Duffields Depot Raid

Mosby Strikes the B&O

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated ...

Cameron's Depot Engagement

"What news now?"

(Preface):

The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan took command in August, defeated Early ...

Commander John B. Montgomery's Landing Site

On July 9, 1846, in the early morning, in “the days when water came up to Montgomery Street,” Commander John B. Montgomery – for whom Montgomery Street was named – landed near this spot from the U.S. Sloop-of-War “Portsmouth,” to ...

Grandeur for the People

Make No Little Plans

The National Archives, keeper of the nation's founding documents and most important federal government records, occupies this important spot halfway between the Capitol and the White House. Before the Archives building was constructed, federal records were ...

Equal Justice Under the Law

Make No Little Plans

The roots of America's top law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, reach back to 1789. That year the first Congress created the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute lawsuits in the Supreme Court and ...

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is situated on granite hills covered with conifer and hardwood forests and streams. The 2,884-acre park is located northwest of downtown Atlanta. The park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, during which ...

Ship Island Lighthouses-GINS

From 1853 to 1972, the United States built two lighthouses on Ship Island to protect vessels from running aground in shallow waters and to guide ships through the Ship Island Pass.

Ship Island became United States territory in 1810 after ...

West Ship Island

Situated twelve miles South of the Mississippi mainland, West Ship Island is a barrier island with evidence of thousands of years of human contact. After Native Americans, European colonists coveted Ship Island as the only deep-water harbor in the Mississippi ...

West Ship Island

Situated twelve miles South of the Mississippi mainland, West Ship Island is a barrier island with evidence of thousands of years of human contact. After Native Americans, European colonists coveted Ship Island as the only deep-water harbor in the Mississippi ...