On the Reedsburg Public Library calendar is the May meeting of the Friends of the Library group, the last full week of spring ...

Mississippi honors those who fought for the Confederacy against the United States in the Civil War. Who tried to drop the state holiday?

On this week's Task & Purpose video, Thom Tran explores the history of land mines and the vital, problematic role on the ...

For several years, the confederate statue in Madisonville has made waves in Hopkins County. Now, enough money has been raised ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Here are notable historical events that occurred in Arkansas between the dates of April 20 and April 26, spanning from 1836 ...

Tennessee’s story is built on moments that shaped the course of American history. It was the last state to secede and the first to rejoin the Union after the Civil War. It witnessed the birth of ...

Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction.