Ten months into the Civil War ... foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage. At the end of August 1864, the Alexandria Gazette in Virginia lamented ...

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North ... site all the way up to the Civil War. “That’s when they came out,” he says. “We’ve found almost nothing after the Civil War.

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

The Smithsonian is a public-private partnership built and sustained over the decades with support from Americans of every ...

public library moved a pro-Palestinian alphabet book to a different location in its kids’ section this week following a review of the book by library staff. After the Mary Riley Styles Public ...

Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the ...

When General Wharton’s great-great granddaughter, Sue Bell, and her parents were selling the home in the 1980s and rummaging ...

Virginia Giuffre, a woman who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has been released from the hospital after claiming she ... POOL/AFP via Getty Images ...