Alec Baldwin says the country is in a “bad” state of political division, describing it as a “pre-Civil War environment.” “Boy ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.

As the sun began to set behind the trees at Pocasset Cemetery, members of the Sons of Union veterans gathered to honor the ...

The story is a big part of Civil War lore. Tim Brookes shares the knowledge whenever he’s asked. You can learn more about ...

Civil War historians in Lackawanna County are looking to bring back a piece of history thought to be lost decades ago.

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

An estimated 240,000 people were killed or went missing in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. Eighty years later, the ...

Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

History buffs will love this Mississippi destination, where a Civil War battle took place that altered the course of history ...