Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

The National Museum of the Pacific War will commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima with a special three-day event, “Iwo Jima – 80 Years ...

Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

We noticed an artillery projectile found lodged in the brick wall of Civil War FORT SUMTER during a historic tour with the ...

As one of the most famous athletes of all time, Muhammad Ali is not only remembered for his skills as a boxer, but his decades of civil rights activism.

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The old F.W. Woolworth Department Store at what is now Elm Street and February One Place, houses the International Civil Rights Center and Museum ... launch a nuclear war, Americans were ...

Charlotte Museum of History will honor Black farmers in Mecklenburg History during the African American Heritage Festival.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Brian Pease was in his element as he stood at the front of the Grand Army of the Republic Hall and led a Civil War Roundtable discussion in August. It wasn’t just because his presentation ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...