War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

In 1898, 33 years after the end of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War brought a sudden, unanticipated harmony and unity to a country that had been riven by war and a punitive postwar military ...

On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South ...

This wine trail in Maryland offers exquisite vineyard views, a tasty array of wines, and some historical charm.

Kara Walker: Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborought to Atlanta, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005 Credit: MinnPost photo by Sheila Regan As ...

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

For example, a memorial honoring Robert Smalls, the enslaved Civil War hero who famously sailed a Confederate vessel out of Charleston Harbor and turned it over to the Union navy, and later served ...