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Freeman's announces highlights included in the European Art & Old Masters sale This major, recently rediscovered painting by Carl Moll. Executed in 1905, Weißes Interieur (White Interior) (Lot 56, $300,000-500,000) has never appeared on the market before. PHILADELPHIA, PA .-Freeman's will hold its latest European Art & Old Masters auction on February 23rd. The sale presents fine art from across the continent, celebrating a multitude of movements and their major artists. Two founders of the Vienna Secession, Carl Moll and Gustav Klimt, headline the auction—highlighted by an elegant interior...

Massacre on the Washita: The U.S. Army's 'Total War' on Native Americans In the fall of 1868, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer commenced a controversial military operation against the Cheyenne. Here's What You Need to Know: Washita was a ringing affirmation of Sheridan’s overall strategy of total war. The conclusion of the Civil War saw the painfully reunited nation resume its westward surge. Complicating that surge was the Indian question: how best to remove the Native American peoples from the paths of white expansion. The United States Army, imbued with impatient confidence after defeat...

Don Wilding There aren’t many people who have been aboard a sinking vessel 390 miles at sea, then stayed adrift in stormy conditions for eight days and nights, and lived to tell about it. Not only did Ulah Deer of Chatham achieve just that, she and the crew of the Fred Richards managed to get back to land just in time to celebrate Christmas in 1890. According to a letter that she wrote to her mother on Dec. 23 that year (published in 1947 by The Cape Codder), Deer (who died in 1960) and her then-husband, Captain William E. Reed, were aboard the vessel Fred Richards when the stormy seas over...

Today: Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. Calm wind. Highs are forecast to gradually drop to seasonable levels by Tuesday, with partly to mostly sunny skies. Courtesy of HistoryNet: 1790 Samuel Slater opens the first cotton mill in the United States (in Rhode Island). 1862 The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action. 1866 Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny to cut wood. 1928 President...

of LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 14, 2020) – A new exhibition in the University of Kentucky's Albert B. Chandler Hospital’s Hamilton Gallery displays the work of Captain William E. Jordan, an artist who made remarkable color drawings after losing his vision to glaucoma. Captain William E. Jordan – Captain is his name, not his title ­– was abandoned as an infant on the steps of a Tennessee church and grew up in orphanages and foster families in Georgia, Alabama and Pennsylvania. He served, and was wounded, in World War I and spent his post-war years in various jobs and business ventures befo...