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It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.

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It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" Sonja Anderson During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Sometimes the little places you pass every day hold much more significance than you realize. That's the case for a Stafford ...

President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the Department of Education. His efforts are history repeating itself.

“History really is stories,” said Tim Jacobs, an active member of the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County and the ...

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction will use local stories to tell “the truth with all ...

Christopher George uncovered a late 19th-century Civil War presentation sword in the attic of his historic family home, ...