Territorial Colorado was still years away from statehood and had only about 34,000 citizens when the American Civil War tore ...

The Bella Vista Civil War Round Table is pleased to announce the Dec. 4 program will be The Battle of Prairie Grove - December 7, 1862. It will be presented by Mattison Griffin at 7 p.m.v at the Bella ...

The Trump administration is officially taking steps to dismantle the Department of Education. The idea has been around for ...

Nebraska might not be known for a cultural destination, but this small town is a great stop for people who love art museums, ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, Tubman is the most-remembered name from the Underground Railroad, a loosely ...

The federal shutdown has limited some events, but ceremonies in Mechanicsburg, Cleona, and Lancaster will still honor ...

Melvin CornfieldNovember 2, 2024Cornfield, a graduate of the College, specialized in tax law. He served as tax director at NBC and later at its parent company, and in the later part of his career led ...

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With the assistance of advanced remote sensing technology and the help of a determined local historian, archaeologists believe they’ve discovered the location of two mass graves of Black Union ...

Edda Fields-Black, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History for her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War,” is herself a descendant of ...

LOUDONVILLE — The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum will host a free public lecture on how photography changed the way Americans viewed war. Titled “Photography During the Civil War,” the program will be ...

Want to go back in time? WorldAtlas' 11 time-capsule towns in Georgia offer close-up looks at gold mining, American wars, classic movies, and more.