During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...
After almost a century of standing watch on the border, Fort Clark was deactivated on Feb. 9, 1946 and turned into, of all things, a dude ranch.
Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...
In the Union service these may be summarized as: Normally, accounts of Civil War battles rely for the numbers of troops rather heavily on the Union "Present for Duty Equipped" figures and a modified ...
During Black History month it is only right to pay tribute to a man having the distinction of being the only black Rhea ...
While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we ...
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 ...
What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.