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Hit the trails, catch a college football game, explore Civil War sites, and eat incredible meals when you visit this vibrant ...
The response comes after last weekend’s unrest, when a crowd swelled into the street, sparking multiple fights.
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 ...
A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...
MADRID, May 23 (Reuters) - Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under ...
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 ...
Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran Julian Scott. Scott is known for his realistic artwork showing the psychological anguish and ...
He was one of the few commissioned Black officers in the Civil War. “The lack of popular knowledge about Garland White is pretty representative about how Black men’s service during the Civil ...