Today’s episode will focus on one of the biggest – and most important – turning points in world history; the Battle of ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

Nestled in the heart of Prince William County, the Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre offers visitors a glimpse into the ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

It will be known as the third Battle of Newtonia. In September of 1862, the American Civil War was in its second year. In southwest Missouri, the tiny area of Newtonia, south and east of Neosho, would ...

The Southern secession from 1861-65 is portrayed as a “lost cause” by supporters and an act of evil by its detractors. Murray ...

A cigar maker and a successful boxer in the 1800s, André Cailloux also was the first Black officer killed in action during ...