With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

Trump's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the ...

The novel ‘Silas Marner’ offers a key insight into how the fires began.

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...

Gen. Rufus Saxton wrote that he bore “witness to the value of her services… She was employed in the Hospitals and as a spy [and] made many a raid inside the enemy’s lines displaying remarkable courage ...

As you march today as an expression of freedom, think back to the American Civil War 1861-1865. Conventional wisdom would ...

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

The President of the United States serves as the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. While not in the chain of command, the Vice President is next in line to take command. Although these ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices. Louis Wigfall, an attorney, legislator, and later U.S. senator from Texas, had many advantages ...

a Bayshore native who was 17 years old when he enlisted to fight for the Union in the Civil War. He was mustered into the 87th New York Infantry in November of 1861, was wounded in the bloody ...

said that when the federal arsenal was commissioned in 1861, there were only a dozen such facilities, most of which were located in the South at the outset of the Civil War. At the time ...