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This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...
Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...
Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to call is Jonathan Sarna. Jews and the Civil War? Sarna knows where the bodies are buried. Need a quote about Jews and bagels?
Lighthouses have been fixtures along the SC coast for 2 centuries. Less than a dozen remain. Restoration is underway on the Hunting Island Lighthouse.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The newly crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen, Natalie Popp, celebrated the Fourth of July weekend in Milton. She toured the Milton House, Wisconsin’s only authenticated Underground ...
The cemetery serves as the resting place for several notable figures in Kansas City’s history, including John Calvin McCoy, ...
July 5 has long been a historic day in Carthage, as residents remember an early battle of the Civil War, which happened here on July 5, 1861, but this year the day had a special flavor. It included ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met in Damascus on Saturday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad ...
More than a century after his passing, Private John Haap, a Civil War Army veteran, was honored with a tombstone dedication ...
A monument to the Union soldiers who fought at the Battle of Carthage was dedicated on Saturday, July 5, the anniversary of ...
In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...
A ceremony to honor Jefferson County’s last Civil War veteran was held recently at the Brookville Cemetery, when a special ...