When James Monroe addressed Congress in December 1823, he could not have known that a few paragraphs embedded in an annual message would shape American foreign policy for more than two centuries. Yet the Monroe Doctrine—born in an age of sailing … [Read more]
Once Upon a Time in College Park: Cox College
I wish I had a five-dollar bill for every time I ventured up Highway 29 — Roosevelt Highway — from Red Oak to downtown College Park. I’d have a tidy sum to invest. From the age of four until I was around twenty years old, I made that trip often — … [Read more]
A Lone Grave on Rocky Face: The Story of George Disney and the Orphan Brigade
High atop the craggy spine of Rocky Face Ridge in Whitfield County, Georgia, lies a single grave. The marble marker is simple, but the story behind it is anything but ordinary. Buried here is Private George Disney, a young English-born Kentuckian of … [Read more]
The Great Camel Experiment: Major Henry C. Wayne and America’s Strangest Military Corps
In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army faced a problem: how to move people and supplies across the newly acquired, sunbaked deserts of the American Southwest. While there were a few short rail lines across areas of Texas as early as the 1850s, there … [Read more]
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