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 ...

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

From Civil War hangings to presidential visits and quirky courthouse tales, explore 175 years of drama, justice and survival at Cape Girardeau's Common Pleas Courthouse.

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s call to arms at the start of the war on April ...

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 ...

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

A new exhibit at the History Colorado Center uncovers how 137 Black men, advocating for their voting rights in the 1860s, ...

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, ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago this Fourth of July, our Founding Fathers stood in Philadelphia − less than an hour and a ...