Against such a backdrop, many of those rural residents began to organize what may have begun as an attempt to find economic advancement but eventually coalesced into what will become known as the ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

Captain America is a superhero and comic book character created by Marvel Comics. A couple of Marvel Rivals' Captain America skins bear an odd visual shield inconsistency now that may irk some and ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

A trunk filled with reproductions and models of Civil War-era items is giving middle school students here an opportunity to more deeply explore that time period.

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

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

We step back in history to a Civil War Confederate Camp with reenactors. We take a closer look at their equipment and show ...

But instead of settling down in a classroom, he found himself fleeing his home, dodging a hail of bullets to escape forced conscription into a war which ... to fight as foot soldiers.