Idaho Statehood: How the Gem State Became the 43rd Member of the Union on July 3, 1890

On July 3, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison sat at his desk in Washington, D.C., and signed the proclamation admitting Idaho to the Union as the forty-third state of the United St

Pickett’s Charge: How Lee’s Greatest Gamble Failed at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and Broke the Confederacy’s Last Hope of Victory

At approximately two o’clock in the afternoon on July 3, 1863, on a broad, sun-scorched Pennsylvania farm field south of the town of Gettysburg, roughly 12,500 Confederate so