Historically, Mare Island conjures thoughts of colossal U.S. Navy ships steaming out into the San Pablo Bay for their maiden ...

The well-worn book of hymns belonged to one of American ... During the Civil War, Tubman served with the Union Army as a rifle-toting scout and spy. In June 1863, she helped lead a gunboat raid ...

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent ... struggling with infighting and sliding toward civil war. France had declared war on Austria in the ...