On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Juneteenth, which became a federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the final end of slavery in the rebelling states just after ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel ...

Christened in 2011, the USNS Medgar Evers may lose its name — a move that’s drawn backlash from Evers’ family and now the ...

(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) The Platte River Bridge Tragedy was a significant event in Missouri during the early Civil War. It was part of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad which saw a lot of action during ...

Those involved in developing fescue in Barry County about 36 years ago, say the three-way crop has contributed substantially ...

Airing Mondays at 9/8c on the History Channel (streaming next-day), “Kevin Costner’s The West” unpacks pivotal U.S.

GARRETSON, S.D. — In 1876, legendary outlaw Jesse James and his brother Frank were on the run after committing a bank robbery ...

Missouri State University's Dr. Jeremy Neely unearths over 400 love letters between a young Union couple during the Civil War ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott decision and the election of Lincoln led to secession.