Alexander Macomb and the Battle of Plattsburgh
On September 11, 1814, during the War of 1812, Brigadier General Alexander Macomb led an outnumbered American force to a crucial defensive victory over a far larger British army at ...
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Creation of Central Park
In 1857, the Board of Commissioners appointed Frederick Law Olmsted superintendent of Central Park in New York City. His initial responsibilities were practical and demanding: overseeing work on the park’s ...
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The Marriage of William and Nellie Tayloe Ross
On September 11, 1902, Nellie Davis Tayloe, a young kindergarten teacher, married attorney William Bradford Ross in Omaha, Nebraska. The couple had met two years earlier while Nellie was visiting ...
Alexander Hamilton and the Treasury Department
On September 11, 1789, President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the Treasury. Taking charge of the new department amid the fiscal disorder that followed the ...
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The Introduction of the Ford Pinto
On September 11, 1970, Ford Motor Company introduced the Ford Pinto to the North American market under the marketing tagline “The Little Carefree Car.” Developed on a compressed roughly 25-month ...
The Strategic Movements of the Battle of Brandywine
On September 11, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under General George Washington fought a British army commanded by General Sir William Howe at the Battle of ...
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The Combat Record of Donald Blakeslee
On September 11, 1917, Donald James Matthew Blakeslee—one of the most accomplished American fighter commanders of the Second World War—was born in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Drawn early to aviation, he ...
The Realities and Response of September 11
On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terrorists carried out coordinated attacks that profoundly affected the United States. Hijackers seized four commercial airliners: two were flown into and destroyed the Twin Towers ...
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“Fighting Mose”: Colonel Moses B. Lakeman, 3rd Maine Infantry
Born September 11, 1828, in Boston, Massachusetts, Moses B. Lakeman didn’t speak in abstractions. Before the war, he made his home further north, working as a hard-bitten Augusta, Maine butcher, ...
Daniel S. Dickinson and the Preservation of the Union
On September 11, 1800, Daniel Stevens Dickinson—attorney, statesman, and orator—was born in Goshen, Connecticut. After moving as a child to upstate New York, he studied law, established a successful practice, ...
The 1959 Waseca Train–Car Tragedy
On September 11, 1959, a freight train struck a station wagon carrying Irene Zimmerman and six of her children to Sacred Heart Parochial School in Waseca, Minnesota. The collision killed ...
Tom Landry and Football’s Systems
On September 11, 1924, Tom Landry—legendary professional football coach, tactical innovator, and World War II B-17 combat veteran—was born in Mission, Texas. After serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces ...
Thomas Hill and the Canvas of the Transcontinental Railroad
Thomas Hill was born in Birmingham, England, on September 11, 1829, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager. He became one of the best-known painters of the nineteenth-century ...
Henry Hudson and New York Bay
On September 11, 1609, English navigator Henry Hudson, sailing for the Dutch East India Company aboard the Halve Maen (Half Moon), moved through the waters of New York Harbor toward ...
O. Henry and the American Short Story
On September 11, 1862, the celebrated American short-story writer O. Henry was born William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Before achieving national literary prominence under his famous pen name, ...
