Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 20—The last of several events marking the 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is planned for Newtonia this ...

More than 100,000 soldiers marched across a newly constructed pontoon bridge and crossed the James River in 1864.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by ...

In the spring of 1864, northwest Louisiana became the center of one of the Civil War’s most ambitious and consequential Union ...

Missouri had long teetered between being a slave or free state. And in 1864, after three years of bloodshed, former Missouri Gov. Sterling Price, while serving as a Confederate general, presented his ...

The 160th anniversary of a Civil War raid into Missouri is being remembered with reenactments, tours, seminars and other events around the state this fall, including an event in Southwest Missouri ...

Mackowski’s latest book is titled “Atlas of Independence: John Adams and the American Revolution.” He recently gave talks about the book at the Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg, ...

It is 1861, and the village of Manitowoc — with a population of 3,061 people — was still struggling to take its place as a center of lumbering, fishing and farming on the shores of Lake Michigan. Its ...

Entering Easton’s Centre Square is like stepping into an American history book. Plaques in what was once the Great Square ...