In his new role, Chris Brown hopes that the breadth of Civil War Trail’s interpretation will grow and develop over time.

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

Sarah Hepola asks Ken Burns five questions ahead of his Dallas appearance at the Winspear Opera House on June 3 to preview ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

Memorial Day, started out as Decoration Day in Waterloo, New York, back in 1866 when Henry Wells, a local drugstore owner ...

Fort Pocahontas is an earthwork fort constructed in 1864 by United States Colored Troops under the command of Gen. Edward A.

Lincoln Depot Museum In March of 1863, amidst the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass announced, “The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate […] ...

Fairfax — Jack Earley finished his high school career as the Yorktown boys’ basketball program’s all-time leading scorer. But with the Patriots’ season on the line against Fairfax in the ...