It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American creation myth: Through the nation's history, all presidents invoked God as ...

A Seneca Indian with legal training, admitted to the military only after Ulysses Grant intervened, Ely Parker made history by writing out the terms of the final Confederate surrender. Later ...

but Birkett and Parker were convinced that a conspiracy had taken place and feared that a rejection of the count would cause the entire case to unravel. "If you say this dreadful war isn't planned ...