In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

In a book, “Army Life In Virginia, The Civil War Letters of George G. Benedict” edited by Eric Ward, there is information about a camp built on land that belonged to Spring Bank Manor in the ...

The remaining descendants of the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to land in the U.S. in 1860 met Saturday in Mobile, ...

During the Scopes Trial over teaching evolution in public school, modern science clashed with religion. Its effects helped ...

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in ...

A military veteran was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for plotting to attack an FBI office and assassinate law ...

On Saturday, at 1 p.m., Aug. 16 the Honey Springs Battlefield will host a program on “The Cherokee Nation and the Civil War.” ...

Shutterstock Russell Gregory’s Murder at Cades Cove Russell Gregory moved to Cades Cove, Tennessee in the early 1840s from ...

The 162nd anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg was commemorated with a series of reenactments of the famous Civil War ...