Most say the Civil War began April 12, 1861, with the first shots fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. But many ...

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent.

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

A Marietta College professor will discuss the life and writing of a frontier minister who was an advocate for education and ...

If Donald Trump seizes the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, perhaps Glenn Youngkin should go after West Virginia.

Opinion: Trump comes to office at a moment of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that ...

Hear about the Union and Confederate forces' race to Washington DC in April 1861. In April 1861, as Union forces retreated north, having lost the first battle of the Civil War, attention turned to the ...

"President Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge," David Adler writes in his weekly ...

“From the founding of the Southern British colonies in 1606 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. These beliefs continue to influence the contemporary South," said Robert Dipboye, professor ...

Confederate Texans and indigenous peoples during the American Civil War. In the summer of 1861, Confederate troops invaded New Mexico from Texas, hoping to conquer that territory and then launch a ...

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops ...