She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

Ken Burns' new six-episode docuseries 'The American Revolution' looks at the attitude George Washington had toward allowing ...

By Ross Hetrick December 4, 1865 was a pivotal day in American history when Thaddeus Stevens, with the help of Edward ...

Since taking office, the Trump administration has declared a war on "woke" military naming—yet its solutions have typically ...

In the 1840s, Parker was denied admission to the New York State bar, despite meeting all the requirements and training to ...

Apple TV's Manhunt is a gripping historical thriller that follows the intense search for Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John ...

George Washington’s war tent is an iconic part of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, but it had origins ...

Gravestones dedicated in Woodland G.A.R. section A ceremony took place for Veterans Day on Tuesday at Woodland Cemetery in ...

This video looks at what became of the Confederates after the Civil War ended in 1865. From the surrender at Appomattox to ...

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

In 1970, a chartered Southern Airways DC-9 carrying 37 Marshall University football players, as well as the team’s coach, doctors, athletic director and 25 team boosters, crashed outside an airport ...