Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

NATO member Denmark has announced it will send soldiers to Ukraine. Despite the nonviolent nature of their deployment, Russia ...

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

Cpl. Fred G. Benning’s platoon and company commanders had just been killed during a fierce battle in France toward the end of ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

When a Civil War general's great-great-granddaughter went rummaging through the attic of their old family home, they could ...

The Kappa Alpha Order was founded in 1865, not long after Lee surrendered to the Union Army, at a Virginia college where Lee served as president. At least one of the first members was a former ...

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

Deciding who is a hero certainly depends on one’s point of view. During the Civil War, spy operations were instrumental in ...

While metal detecting a historic Civil War camp in Alabama, we made an incredible discovery — a buried fire pit filled with relics from the past! From bullets and uniform buttons to iron tools and ...

Charlie Shelton-Ormond: total they were 1500 reenactors. It was actually mostly split even between Confederate and Union and 1500 is a large number, but that's actually nothing compared to the actual ...