The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended ...

While sweeping the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park as part of a rehabilitation project, an archaeologist ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

On Juneteenth, Raleigh pays tribute to the often-overlooked U.S. Colored Troops who played a pivotal role in the Union's ...

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

US President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honouring the US war dead Monday by tearing into his “scum” opponents and judges who do not rule in his favour. Trump performed the ...

Campau Park on the city's east used to be Camp Ward, where the 102nd United States Colored Troops trained during the Civil War over 150 years ago. "We represent the only Black regiment from ...

On the front line in the war, Russia said that it had pushed into Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian state media quoted Lt. Gen. Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian ...

Proclaimed the “greatest caller” in show history by Paul Finebaum, Charles from Reeltown, an iconic personality who coined his own phrase and was an avid Auburn fan, died May 31 at the age of ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Tuesday of a "very profound underlying cultural civil war underway," touching on the great divide between the right and left, as the two sides of the ...

They quickly surmised the bones were actually from the Civil War, when a makeshift hospital ... SEE ALSO: John Doe found dead in Florida more than three decades ago identified as Virginia man ...

as many as 250,000 are dead, according to the study. “No Soviet or Russian war since World War II has even come close to Ukraine in terms of fatality rate,” it said. Ukraine has sustained ...