american history

On September 7, 1813, the United States was nicknamed 'Uncle Sam,' and is connected to a meat packer from Troy named Samual Wilson.

Some of the most famous battles in the American Revolutionary War took place in Upstate New York. British forces surrendered in the Battle of Saratoga and the Smithsonian Channel highlights the area in the series 'Aerial America.' The show takes viewers on a flight to look at the Saratoga Monument and the Schuyler Farmhouse that was General Philip Schuyler's second home...

I am old enough to remember watching the March On Wasington on this day in 1963 on television. I didn't know at the time, that the speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would be embedded into America's history as one of the most memorable of the 20th century.

Sandra Bullock returns to the big screen for the first time in two years in the action/comedy "The Heat" which co-stars "Mike and Molly"s Melissa McCarthy. It will compete for you movie business with "White House Down", an action flick with Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum and "Copperhead", a Civil War drama set in Upstate New York and based on a book by late U

We at Big Frog 104 would like to share what may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see an historic American document.