It’s probably the most famous debate in American history – the Lincoln Douglas debates.  While the two where vying for a spot in the U.S....

These days it’s not a bid deal at all to take a picture.  The bigger problem is figuring out what to do with all of...

Good salesman can sell you an item you need.  Great salesman find a way to sell you many items you need.  That was the plan...

Many farmers purchased windmills to pump water for their livestock.  But there was someone else buying windmills for another purpose, and that demand meant farmers...

Just about every farmstead had one at one time – many remain, although few still perform the task they were originally built to do.  That...

Sometimes history makes people seem bigger than life.  That’s certainly true for a man named Ethan Allen and his band of Green Mountain Boys.  So...

It was one of the most important forts of the late 1700s and interestingly, it changed hands twice without a shot being fired.  But it...

The situation was bad, for all involved.  But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to the Dakota who the US...

Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man.  But when he married, his wife encouraged him to become active in...

Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago, when Native Americans and frontiersman...