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It hasn’t been easy getting people excited about celebrating the 200th birthday of that tall, gaunt, bearded, Kentucky-bred president who was born in a log cabin and went on to lead his people ...

Davis attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point before joining the Army and distinguished himself in the Mexican-American War. He was named secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce.

On Christmas Eve, 1826, some of the cadets, including Jefferson Davis, broke the military school’s no drinking policy and indulged in a boozy Eggnog.

Legend has it that an on-the-run Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, ... "He attended West Point, was a war hero, was a member of both the House and Senate, ...

And last week, the Academy opened a new barracks named after Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who—after being shunned at West Point because of his race in the 1930s—eventually commanded the Tuskegee ...

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in Jefferson Davis County is getting a boost from a West Virginia-based defense innovation company, with strong ties to the Pine Belt.

Jefferson Davis was raised on a plantation and educated at Transylvania University and West Point. He served as a congressman, a senator and as secretary of war, and distinguished himself in ...

What Aaron Burr and Jefferson Davis Tell Us About the Trump Indictments America has never prosecuted a former head of state. But Trump’s indictments aren’t as unprecedented as you might think.

Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. In her latest piece for The New Yorker, Jill Lepore ...

Jefferson Davis lived a life of public service, made possible by the labor of enslaved African Americans on his family's Mississippi cotton plantation. A graduate of West Point, ...

Gen Jefferson Davis at West Point. Share full article. Sept. 26, 1855. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 26, 1855, Page 2 Buy Reprints.