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.

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.

As a boy, I devoured the historically accurate and side-splittingly funny Harry Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser, ...

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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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It was a war fueled by colonialism, launched with the intent of humiliating a weaker country, fought in the name ...

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