On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania RMS was sunk twelve miles off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine. The pride of the Cunard Line went...

German born Louis Franke arrived in Texas in 1845. He came with a master’s degree in law from the University of Jena. Franke volunteered...

On April 8, 1864, thirty-two-year-old Fayette Smith from Navasota, Texas, was wounded at the Battle of Mansfield in Louisiana. Not his...