Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission  division responsible for preserving the state’s ...

Approximately 200 Newark area residents, along with Civil War reenactors and public officials, gathered to rededicate the ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. The Civil War ...

Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

Restored after years of neglect, Crown Heights' oldest house recalls a time when farms and country villas dotted the area.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

If you’ve ever spent time in downtown Fayetteville, you may have noticed a stone monument on the northwest corner of the old ...