American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

Today's History Seekers adventure takes us to a field used by both confederate and union soldiers during the American Civil ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War gathered at the Clark County Historical Museum recently to commemorate the installment of new officers for the General John W. Sprague C ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...