Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

An old cemetery in Hazlet contains the graves of several war veterans, but their locations are unclear. A construction ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...

A rare memoir of a Civil War veteran from Mooresburg has recently been found and published, offering more details about the ...

Some say Florida has more than 200 ghost towns. Here's a list of some and the story of one that was founded by a 19th-century ...

The highly fictionalized six-part series drops Thursday. It centers around 1857 events in the Utah War as the federal ...

January 10 marks pivotal events in history, from the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I to the League of Nations’ launch ...

Arguably the first major war to be documented by photographers, the emerging media captured the horrors of the conflict for the public and for future generations. These incredible early photographs ...

Students at the Fort Hayes school campus work in a historical society to preserve the history of the former fort they now ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

Part one of Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga hit theaters in June 2024, and now it's also available to stream on ...