During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States, one place remained whole: a symbol of America's early promise and future hope. Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George ...

Intense drought conditions are causing water levels of the 2,300-mile-long Mississippi River to drop Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been working at ...

Deep underground, a construction crew is hard at work. They are digging a two-mile-long tunnel to help keep millions of gallons of raw sewage out of nearby waterways. And they have a lot of help ...

As bedraggled Union troops retreated to their camp along the James River in Virginia in early July 1862, they endured a march that stretched more than 12 miles. Eager to lighten their load in ...

As they paraded by him for the first time in March of 1864, soldiers of the Army of the Potomac knew the general in full dress blues, accented with sash and sword, was the freshly minted commander of ...

Potomac by Air: Our Nation's River is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...