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 ...

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 ...

Tennessee’s story is built on moments that shaped the course of American history. It was the last state to secede and the ...

By Andy Furman NKyTribune reporter It was billed as a lesson in our history – Northern Kentucky, to be exact. And the ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

The Mississippi River is now the “most endangered” waterway in the United States, a major water advocacy group warns, largely due to the Trump administration’s efforts to overhaul the ...

According to the NWS, the river is expected to reach a flow of ... on marine life and water quality in the lake and the Mississippi Sound.

As most of the 120,000-man Army of the Potomac navigated the Rappahannock River ... of the battle and with control of the hill in hand, Lee commented to Longstreet … “It is well war is so ...

AIRMONT CITY, ILL. – An Illinois family is demanding police do more after they said their loved one fell into the Mississippi River. They said it happened as he was being chased by police ...

A federal court yesterday ruled that remedial state Senate maps passed by the Legislature earlier ... a coalition including the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Lawyers ...

Its name derives from the Algonquian word, lappihanne, meaning "river of quick, rising water." Other waterways on American Rivers’ top 10 endangered list are, in order, the Mississippi River; the ...