With Louisiana’s militias off fighting in Virginia and Tennessee, the job of defending the Crescent City fell to two forts ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers died in a defeat so stinging that it spawned a vengeful American battle cry ... at the River Raisin Battlefield. The Civil War’s superior firepower ...

Lane Nichols takes a luxury cruise down the mighty Mississippi River and falls in love ... the scene of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. We board a coach and head to the Vicksburg ...

Along the way, jubilant well-wishers slowed his train and he crossed the James River into Richmond far ... preferring to name Civil War battles for towns instead of watercourses—was a fierce ...

Taverns and saloons were an integral part of Irish and German immigrants’ lives and social connections in the 19th century. Social Turners, a German American gymnastics club, founded its Chicago ...

J.P. Coleman State Park, located just a short drive from downtown, offers stunning views of the Tennessee River and Pickwick ...

Hancock County author and retired history teacher Eddie Price recently presented his “Lincoln’s Brown Water Navy” program at ...

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To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.