Hit the trails, catch a college football game, explore Civil War sites, and eat incredible meals when you visit this vibrant ...

The Union soldiers were driving 900 head of cattle towards Louisville when they were surprised by a Confederate attack where ...

Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each ... block until the end of the Civil War. As tensions mounted, John Hunt ...

After a second straight weekend of a massive crowds flooding Bardstown Road near Grinstead Drive, Mayor Craig Greenberg said ...

During the Civil War, Charles Henry Quander, a slave at the Hayfield Plantation, provided food to a unit of Union soldiers from Pennsylvania assigned to Camp Vermont. According to the Quander ...

A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It has been more than 200 years since Kentucky was admitted as the 15th state in a union that would later make up the United States. Kentucky is celebrating its 233rd birthday ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...

Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate there were still around 65,000 enslaved people in 1865. In December 1865, the end of slavery was ...

In July 1865, when Alexander died, the Civil War had only just ended. During a period known as Reconstruction (1865-1877), the United States government faced reintegrating Southern states back ...

Meatloaf was her specialty. But when his father started taking him for visits to his childhood home of Bardstown, Kentucky, Zumwalde was captivated by both the comforts and the time-honored ...

A federal court ruled that the congressional district map drawn by the Alabama legislature ... mandated two majority-black districts under the Civil Rights Act. A three-judge panel on the U.S ...