In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry. Simon and Schuster.

So began a long career working on the “Diamond,” what we refer to today as Memorial Square. It was in late June 1863 when ...

Tom Holland recently explained how Robert Downey Jr. saved his first Spider-Man scene in Captain America: Civil War. What did ...

Jesse James rode with Bill Anderson's bushwhackers into the small Missouri town of Centralia. There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War. The ...

Regarded as the war’s finest general, Robert E. Lee was a master of the organization of war. The country’s most experienced general in 1861, he declined President Lincoln’s offer to head the ...

The ship’s pilot helped his family reach freedom, then served in the Civil War and in the U.S. Congress. Robert Smalls’s ...

Tensions are high heading into Election Day and the post-election period. Trump supporters outside his Madison Square Garden ...

The state's archeological conservator opened a 130-year-old copper box that was discovered underneath the former Robert E ... from campus to a nearby Civil War museum following October allegations ...

Slave-Owning Family Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers who owned six slaves. When the Civil War came, young Jesse watched ...