Many founders wanted the President to be elected/selected by the U.S. Congress, a much smaller body of elites at that time.

“After looking at maps of the Civil War, after looking at property records, it was determined this was the area of Alfred Mouton,” Muller said. The site, once part of Gen. Alfred Mouton’s plantation, ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

Rufus Easton laid out Alton's original plat in 1818, with Rev. Thomas Lippincott's help, but never lived in the town.