Popular Memorial Pages

• Dr. Samuel Alexander MUDD

  Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883)

  by llighthse and others can contribute.

  Updated 13 Mar 2012 - 65,477 views this week (418,629 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 2 comments, 1 story

• 1,648 Slaves in the Estate of Nathaniel Heyward, Charleston, SC, 1851

  The estate inventory of Nathaniel Heyward, filed in June of 1851, lists the names of 1,648 enslaved ancestors on 15 plantations in Charleston, Colleton…

  by Lowcountry_Africana and others can contribute.

  Updated 20 Feb 2012 - 11,507 views this week (285,717 total)

  Contributions 20 images, 19 stories

• Zumbi dos Palmares

  Zumbi (Alagoas, 1655 — 20 de novembro de 1695) foi o último dos líderes do Quilombo dos Palmares. Dia 20 de Novembro - Dia da Consciência Negra é…

  by mestrepaulao and others can contribute.

  Updated 09 Jul 2010 - 9,412 views this week (1,398,589 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 1 story

• FEMALE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS & SPIES

  Like most historic battles, the U.S. Civil War had its spies--men and women--on both sides. It was a hazardous occupation with few rewards.

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Jan 2012 - 3,311 views this week (139,801 total)

  Contributions 36 images, 7 comments, 28 stories

• The Cherokee Trail of Tears

  The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838 the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 23 Mar 2012 - 2,439 views this week (127,057 total)

  Contributions 11 images, 7 comments, 2 stories

• Emmanuel O. LITTLE b. 1865 in Northern, Maryland

  This is one of the Grandfather's of Gladys Lavenia STONER-HANDIBOE, mother of William Roy HANDIBOE. This LITTLE, married a "twin" SMITH, as well as his…

  by llighthse

  Updated 11 Jan 2011 - 2,255 views this week (275,182 total)

  Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 2 stories

• Underground Railroad

  You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich.…

  by bgill

  Updated 21 Jan 2010 - 2,060 views this week (149,393 total)

  Contributions 44 images, 4 comments, 46 stories

• Female Guards in Nazi Concentration Camps

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Updated 24 Nov 2011 - 1,342 views this week (17,145 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 64 stories

• Buddy Holly's plane crash site

  On Feb 2, 1959, rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Booper performed at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. Shortly after midnight, the three…

  by Edward1026 and others can contribute.

  Updated 20 Mar 2012 - 1,222 views this week (76,688 total)

  Contributions 19 images, 3 comments, 9 stories

• Samuel Morgan LEWIS b. Jamestown, VA

  This is one of my GGGrandfth's, the father of John Henry LEWIS b. Portsmouth, VA. He also, joined the CONFEDERATE cause in spite of his age, due to the…

  by llighthse

  Updated 14 Nov 2010 - 1,203 views this week (232,572 total)

  Contributions 35 images, 8 stories

• Fold3 Press Room

  The latest happenings about Fold3

  by Fold3_Team

  Updated 19 Aug 2011 - 1,005 views this week (105,673 total)

  Contributions 2 images, 38 stories

• Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass

  On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi Storm Troopers and German citizens launched a massive, government-coordinated attack on Jews throughout Germany.…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 03 May 2011 - 965 views this week (37,952 total)

  Contributions 90 images, 1 story

• Four Little Girls: The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing

  Articles and information from The Clarion-Ledger investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell regarding the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in…

  by historybeat

  Updated 29 Mar 2012 - 960 views this week (30,736 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 3 comments, 20 stories

• Jack London's "A Good Soldier"

  Jack London wrote a tract called "A Good Soldier" in response to World War 1. The Bureau of Investigations thought it contraversial enough to keep it on…

  by sjackman and others can contribute.

  Updated 04 Jun 2010 - 895 views this week (145,301 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 4 comments, 4 stories

• Anne Frank

  Anne Frank is probably the best-known victim of the Holocaust. As a young child, her family fled Germany for the Netherlands to escape the escalating…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 01 Apr 2011 - 840 views this week (19,554 total)

  Contributions 7 images, 2 comments

• John W Creasy

  by Fold3_Team and others can contribute.

  Updated 01 Dec 2008 - 762 views this week (14,865 total)

• Dewitt H. TEEPLE, timeline and info-UNION soldier, & FIRST Lt., 9th dis

  Dewitt H. TEEPLE, would be one of William Roy HANDIBOE'S, that's my husband-would be one of his GreatGrandfathers. He was born in MI, however after the…

  by llighthse

  Updated 28 Nov 2009 - 745 views this week (40,887 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 4 comments, 12 stories

• Battle of Gettysburg

  Union and Confederate soldiers fought for three days on the bloody fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. While the Union could call this battle a victory,…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 26 Mar 2012 - 742 views this week (57,062 total)

  Contributions 51 images, 3 comments, 4 stories

• Brown vs. Board of Education

  After the Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the doctrine of “separate but equal” applied to all segregated facilities throughout…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 09 Dec 2008 - 707 views this week (56,999 total)

  Contributions 14 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• African American Patriots of the Revolutionary War

  In 1775, the citizens of the Massachusetts colony were setting course for a war that would decide the fate of a nation. ~Page One

  by bgill

  Updated 11 Oct 2011 - 691 views this week (112,504 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 37 stories