You might think of the Civil War as long ago; however, this West Virginia tavern has stood the test of time, even becoming a hot spot for two U.S. presidents.

Three-dimensional images and digital illustrations offer a detailed new look at the USS Monitor, an important Civil War ship that sank more than 160 years ago and has since become a reef.

There are military artifacts with stories behind them across the state, but few are as famous as the two Civil War-era cannons that, until 2023, when they were "temporarily" relocated, could be seen ...

Annie’s public efforts made the invisible labor of so many women visible on a massive scale during a critical time in Iowa and U.S. history.

Today marks the 61st anniversary of the Selma Marches—a defining chapter in our Nation’s righteous crusade for equal justice under the law. Beginning on ...

Charlottesville (along with the University of Virginia) provided two veteran units, the Monticello Guard (Co. A), and the ...

In 1861, during the American Civil War when Hilton Head Island in South Carolina fell to Union troops, hundreds of enslaved African Americans escaped from their former enslavers to Union-held ...

Civil War launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC. Command armies in this deep real-time strategy game set during the American Civil War.

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One explicit goal of the second Trump administration, if not its defining mission, is to undo the recent past and rewrite history to fit its own master narrative. By now it’s axiomatic that making ...

At the start of the Civil War in April 1861, 49-year-old Henry Wilson of Natick, Mass., was serving his sixth year in the U.S. Senate. He had been reelected in 1859 after having first been elected in ...

Tucker Carlson says liberal cities such as Minneapolis are pushing America toward disaster and civil war. The uncomfortable truth is that his argument helps normalize the very use of federal force ...