The Civil War was an intense period of American history, but holidays came around nonetheless. Here's what Americans ate then ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did something about it.

When the Civil War began, the remote Pacific Northwest lacked Eastern telegraph and railroad connections, cutting it off from news. Newspapers took six weeks to arrive by ship. The news of South Carol ...

The California Powder Works was also the first company on the Pacific Coast to produce nitro-cotton smokeless powder for ...

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in U.S. history commemorating the end of slave. Here's how to ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen troops. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and retail discounts.

The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...

This video delves into the pivotal strategies and campaigns of 1864 that led to the Union's decisive advantage in the American Civil War. From General Ulysses S. Grant's relentless Overland Campaign ...

Genocides are one-sided, systematic killings of civilians unable to surrender, unable to sue for peace. When Raphael Lemkin ...

The story of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, aka Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, one of up to 1,000 women who posed as men to fight in the Civil ...

If you don't like Trump, his military parade and sending of the National Guard are evidence of his yearning for dictatorial ...