[caption id="attachment_4051" align="alignright" width="144" caption="Joseph Ambrose, WWI vet, holding the flag that covered his son's casket, who was killed in the Korean War."] [/caption] On this day in 1918, at 11 AM, World War I finally ended and the guns fell silent...

This article is a guest post by Pat Garland. If you're interested in posting on EiH, contact me for more details. Prior to our invasion of Cuba in July 1898, an expedition by black troopers of the 10th Cavalry landed on the island to meet with Cuban rebels, who were...

It's time for another installment of Links of Interest, the weekend edition of Everything Is History. In this issue, we have some typographical history, some xbox live history, a letter from a jilted lover, among other things. As usual, if the title is self-explanatory...

I happened to be reading about the Spanish-American War when I began to wonder about General John Pershing. In the annals of American military history he is often overshadowed by the likes of Eisenhower, Washington, and Grant so I thought I would try to do him some justice...

As the 3 repeat visitors to EiH know, I'm not above recommending lowbrow comedy, and I can be funny sometimes, myself. Also, this site was down for a week, and I lost about 3 days worth of posts during that time, and couldn't remember which ones were missing. Thankfully...

Since 1945, hundreds of thousands of military personnel became human guinea pigs in experiments and intentional exposures conducted by the U.S. government--often without their knowledge or consent. Aided by recently declassified documents, this video reveals the truth...

[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Trucks along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska"] [/caption]Despite entering World War I nearly 3 years late, the United States was heralded as the savior of Europe. Fresh-faced doughboys arriving with...

The situation in regards to Iran is incredibly tense right now, with their dangerously provocative rivalry with Israel, the nuclear energy (read: weapons...allegedly) program, and now the possibly that the country's latest presidential election may have been rigged. At...

Income Tax History [caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignright" width="173" caption="Abraham Lincoln: Father of the Income Tax (sort of)"] [/caption] Did you know that the Federal Income Tax was first signed into law by Abraham Lincoln as the Revenue Act of 1861...