During the Colonial era, tea was often a staple of polite society. It was served with morning breakfast as well as at ...

I wrote for The Telegraph a column titled “Grand Army of the Republic’s legacy lives on.” It dealt with the Parrott Rifle, sometimes called “the cemetery cannon,” which sits in Alton Cemetery. The ...

There’s something undeniably magical about standing on weathered wooden planks that have witnessed the passage of history, and Pennsylvania’s Sachs Covered Bridge delivers that time-traveling ...

For generations, Cleveland residents glancing at a Bavarian-style brick structure while driving on Linden Avenue have ...

James Thomas Jr. (1806-1882) was a tobacconist, trustee and philanthropist who kept the school afloat financially during the lean, post-Civil War years. Both men enslaved Black people. These dormitory ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the Revolutionary War.

Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a ...

SEGUIN, Texas — A home built during the Civil War era in Seguin is caving in after it went up in flames during Monday night's hazardous storms.

A wildfire swept through portions of a Civil War-era fort and historical site in southern New Mexico, forcing the evacuations of campgrounds and a horse ranch, authorities said Monday.