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

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

A gun expert with over three decades of experience identifies five contenders for the world’s most powerful handguns. -These ...

The story of Holt Collier, the bear guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on his famous 1902 Mississippi hunt.

The performance blends storytelling, music, and multimedia to explore the first 100 years of U.S. history. Greg Jackson humanizes history, telling dramatic stories to make the past relatable.

Today’s column picks up where last Monday’s ended as we look back at the week before the first shots of the Civil War were ... Pickens and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard notified President Jefferson ...

P. G. T. Beauregard and his Confederate ... the mighty Mississippi … Vicksburg. In two columns a Civil War battle such as Shiloh can’t be justly covered, as with all articles I hope this ...

The US Civil ... G.T. Beauregard. Confederate reinforcements turned the tide of this battle in favor of the South. This early Confederate victory boosted morale for the South and signaled that ...

Larson wrote his new book, "The Demon of Unrest," about the events leading up to the bombardment of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces – the first shots fired in the Civil War. Larson calls it ...

The battle cry of the Confederacy resounded a long way from its home, but throughout the Civil War ... full-sized color lithograph portrait of P.G.T. Beauregard, the Confederate general who ...

In Charleston, SC, the American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard's artillery fired on the Union occupied Fort Sumter. Union Major Robert Anderson moved his ...