History comes to life as we metal detect the very battlefield where a Civil War cavalry officer met his fate. This site holds ...

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

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

"The Buffalo Soldiers hold a special place in our history, leading and serving despite racism," said Rockland Legislator Toney Earl.

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Feb. 6, 1899, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain was ratified by the U.S. Senate; the treaty ended the ...

Explore the lives of little-known changemakers who left their mark on the country During the Civil War, Confederates targeted ... Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House ...

The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic ... “Our vision of Syria is a decentralized, secular and civil country based on democracy that preserves the rights of all of its components ...

The commander of the main U.S.-backed force in Syria said Sunday the recent ouster of the Assad family from power should be followed by building a secular, civil and decentralized state that ...