In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

"I attended a college fraternity event that, in hindsight, was inappropriate and does not reflect the person I am today," ...

The flag is the only known privately-owned Confederate battle flag captured during Pickett’s Charge from Pickett’s Division ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The ruling junta in Myanmar on Monday declared a week of national mourning for the devastating earthquake, which has killed ...

Lee, the Confederate general who led southern forces during the Civil War ... Alpha threw "Old South" parties. They were formal affairs where the Confederate battle flag was flown and fraternity ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American ...