In a first-of-its-kind ceremony in Westmoreland County Monday, dozens honored the final Union Civil War veteran buried in the ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

The political intrigue leading up to 1861 rivals the battlefield action readers ... is one of the few Civil War histories where Lincoln isn’t the most compelling figure. That title goes to ...

California was never a hotbed of Civil War action, but the Golden State ... who was an influential figure in social circles and, along with Starr King, presided over California’s first ...

Major figures of the Civil War passed through Salem ... McCausland never gave an after-action report.” For decades, the name of David Hunter was cursed by Virginians who told stories of his ...

The False Claims Act dates to the Civil War and allows the government to recover ... is giving whiplash to institutions still trying to figure out what the federal government will allow, an ...

The result is likely to be not a fully technopolar world but a more technopolar United States mirrored by a tightly ...

A former USAID worker has a new mission. She's hoping to connect philanthropists with overseas programs that have lost — or ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

This story originally appeared in The Centre County Gazette. BELLEFONTE — On Sunday, June 8, history isn’t just coming alive; ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers Tuesday that Syria may be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or collapsing ... the transitional authority figures — they didn’t ...