A piece on the importance of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry.

An Analysis of Alimony Wars.

This is an article that my son Steven wrote for school. He made "100" on it. He’s very proud and wants me to share it with my friends here on Triond.

East or West, straight orientation is the best, in the best interest of a society as well as a country.

Timothy Dexter, who made a fortune buying useless foreign currency during the War of Independence, sold warming pans and woollen mittens to the West Indies, would surely be a contender for the world’s most eccentric eccentric. Amongst his other crazy ideas, he wrote in his autobiography that what America really needed was an emperor – and he was just the man for the job!

Slaves lived at Martha’s Vineyare beginning around 1680, but the first slave on record was a woman named Rebecca Amos.

More Prisoners of Eternity.

The dead once roamed these halls, making their existence known to trespassers.

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre.

It was 1692, and nobody was safe from being accused of a witch. This was the year the Salem witch trials began, which were a series of killings of people because they were thought to be witches. What caused the Salem witch trial hysteria of 1692? Some say it was caused by ergot, a poisonous fungus. Others say it was because four teenage girls wanted fame. Some even said it was because people wanted land.