The Chartreux is a historic French breed with a dense, water resistant blue gray coat and copper to…
The Burmilla began in the United Kingdom in 1981 after an unplanned litter between a Chinchilla Persian and…
The modern Burmese traces back to Wong Mau, a brown cat brought from Burma to San Francisco in…
The British Shorthair is one of England's oldest breeds, descended from street and farm cats of Great Britain.…
The Bombay was developed in Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1950s by breeder Nikki Horner, who crossed sable Burmese…
The Birman is often called the Sacred Cat of Burma, thanks to a legend about temple cats. The…
The Bengal was developed in the United States by crossing domestic cats with the Asian leopard cat, a…
The Balinese is essentially a longhaired Siamese, developed in the United States in the mid 1900s. It has…
The American Wirehair began in 1966 with a kitten born on a farm in Verona, New York, with…
The American Shorthair descends from cats that sailed with early European settlers to North America, where they earned…
The American Curl began with a stray named Shulamith found in Lakewood, California, in 1981. Her unusual ears…
The American Bobtail was developed in the United States in the 1960s. Its naturally short tail is usually…
The Abyssinian is one of the oldest known cat breeds. It is named after Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, though…
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
Clara Barton was a former teacher and federal clerk who began delivering supplies and caring for wounded soldiers…
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was one of the first official Black regiments in the Union Army, organized in…
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in Maryland in 1849 and returned many times to lead family members and others…
Frederick Douglass escaped slavery in Maryland in 1838 and became one of the most powerful abolitionist speakers and…
Robert E. Lee was a Virginian and West Point graduate who served in the U.S. Army for more…
After President Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, a funeral train carried his body about 1,600 miles from…
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to General Ulysses S.…
After capturing Atlanta in September 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led about 60,000 soldiers on a march…
More than 300,000 Ohioans served in the Union armed forces, one of the largest contributions of any state.
Camp Chase opened in 1861 on the west side of Columbus as a training camp for Ohio volunteers.…