On December 6, 1861, a special dispatch from Stanford, Kentucky to the Louisville Daily Journal warned that a sizeable ...

The Day of the Jackal is a British thriller based on a 1971 novel of the same name. It stars Eddie Redmayne as a professional ...

On the 250th anniversary of Bunker Hill, it’s worth revisiting the horrors and anxieties of the conflict that birthed America ...

Here’s a disputed story from Columbia. In the summer of 1935, H. Clifton Thobahn wrote about a tunnel at Wright’s Ferry ...

Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women. While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

The bronze statue, erected in 1897, honors Logan’s service as a Union commander during the Civil War and his later career as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

GREEN BLUFF, Wash. — Civil War history came alive at Siemers Farm in Green Bluff this Memorial Day weekend as reenactors created an educational experience connecting visitors to the holiday's ...

Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as “Decoration Day.” The Pioneer Cemetery holds 145 Civil War veterans’ graves. Observances are held across Lane County, with one of Oregon’s oldest ...

Logan High School in La Crosse has a new principal GOP Calls for Investigation into Federal Card Charges 'Yellowstone' star Cole Hauser says veterans are struggling even when we're not at war ...

Memorial Day, first called Decoration Day, has its origins in the Civil War (1861-1865) and was a time to honor the Union soldiers who died. Now the national holiday honors all military members ...

For more than a century in Des Moines’s Glendale Cemetery, the remains of 15 Union Civil War veterans rested in unmarked graves. They remained unmarked until Thursday, when the culmination of ...