Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will present historian Megan Kate Nelson, author of the 2020 book “The Three-Cornered War: ...

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

Despite having much of its most valuable territory retaken by the summer of 1864, the Confederacy continued to resist. If it ...

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

The latest personification of this aphorism is the governor of the state of Maine, Janet Mills. Cloning so many of her fellow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...