HBO's The Gilded Age is fiction, but informed deeply by history, with several characters that are based on real people ...

Civil War Engraving Newbern - 1863 19th Century This is an engraving drawn by William Momberger and engraved by J.C. McRae. The date was 1863 and it was engraved expressly for Abbott's Civil War.

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

In a state known for mouse ears and beach chairs, Micanopy (pronounced mick-ah-NO-pee, and yes, it’s fun to say) offers something refreshingly different – a genuine slice of old Florida charm that ...

Travel is all about the experience. And with a fast-paced world zipping all around us, sometimes it’s nice to just catch our ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

A grant from the Illinois State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available for online research on CARLI Digital Collections.

BEDFORD COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — This weekend, Old Bedford Village will once again be hosting its annual Civil War weekend. The event will feature several living history interpreters throughout the ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned of an "underlying cultural civil war" in America, claiming President Donald Trump's support comes from his opposition to the Obama-Biden system.

They’re now trying to identify human remains from the 19th century, a rare endeavor that will include searching for living descendants and requesting swabs of DNA.

Texans, and the behaviors that arose in Texas after the Civil War, had contributed a great deal to this gunfighter. Every town didn’t have two guys facing off in the middle of [the street] every day ...