What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate troops. Confronted by unsanitary living conditions and the ever-present risk of ...

On April 17 and 18, the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall will host its annual Civil War symposium. In its seventh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical anniversary ...

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On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical anniversary this year – the start of the Civil War 165 years ago on April 12, 1861.

Osceola was once the kind of town people bet the future of southwest Missouri on — busy, growing, and wealthy enough to draw ...

The shooting of Alex Pretti on January 24 in the ongoing Minnesota siege has once again foregrounded the deep divisions in ...

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer ...

Many of Lima’s 2,000 citizens were in church that sunny Sunday morning in April 1861 when the excited talk of war on the ...

Kudos to the Post's former Life editor Kong Rithdee for his eloquent and poignant article. If we were to piece together the ...

The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, ...

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...