The School of Application for Infantry and Cavalry, located at Fort Leavenworth, was founded in 1881 by William Tecumseh Sherman to give graduates of West Point practical experience and additional training through a two-year course of instruction. In 1907, the …
Last week, this map, created by the Nigerian Survey Department in 1949, sparked the questions “Where is this?” and “What’s going on?” We discovered it the drawer of maps of Nigeria as we worked through to shift part of the …
Earlier this week, on March 1, Yellowstone National Park turned 144 years old. It was created in 1872 through an Act of Congress titled “An Act to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the headwaters of the …