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Before the era of power couples and media-savvy political dynasties, there was John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier. He was the young, handsome, and intelligent president. She was the feminine, sophisticated, and elegant first lady. After the tragedy of 1963, they became symbols of patriotism, beauty, and American pride. Over time, that image of perfection … Read more

Two lines of soldiers stand in an open field, one in blue and one in gray, calmly waiting their turn to be shot at. That image has appeared in movies, textbooks, and classroom jokes for over a century—the notion that Civil War soldiers followed an unspoken gentleman’s agreement, one side firing while the other stood … Read more

A former Oregon deputy sheriff is breaking a decades-long silence about a case he says he could never explain, involving three missing residents who returned months later acting like people they no longer seemed to be. In the fall of 1959, a family of three vanished from their remote farm in eastern Oregon. Augustine Vosler, … Read more

The Halstead family arrived at a 160-acre parcel of bottomland in the hill country of Independence County, Arkansas, in October of 1867. Elias Halstead was a 39-year-old Civil War veteran with a limp from a ball that never fully worked its way out of his leg. His wife, Sarah, was a 28-year-old widow who had … Read more