The Continental Army engages the British in the last major battle in the North of the Revolution. A solar eclipse plunges the colonies into darkness in June 1778 as the Continental Army mobilizes from ...

An open house event with guided tours was held at the Honey Hill Battlefield on November 30. The Battle of Honey Hill in 1864 was one of the last Confederate victories of the Civil War. The ...

Borroum’s Drug Store, Mississippi’s oldest continuously operating pharmacy and soda fountain, serves up slugburgers in a ...

A new play written by an Eastern Mennonite University graduate, premiering at the Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center this ...

World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

On December 10, 1898, the United States signed a historic peace treaty to end the momentous Spanish-American War. The treaty ...

The long-running feud over Touro Synagogue has lasted for 13 years, so long that some of the people involved have since died.

Ancestry research in the modern age is often reduced to DNA, three rather impersonal letters that clinically reveal our ...

Dewey Spencer joined the military in hopes of seeing the world. Post discharge, as a veteran helping other veterans, he has had a plethora of unexpected experiences.

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...

Just before the Battle of Spotsylvania was the Battle of the Wilderness. Abraham Lincoln had recently appointed Ulysses S. Grant as general-in-chief of all Union armies, and Grant had promised the ...

Part 2 dives into the opening battles of 1861 — when America moved from political conflict to bloody war. From Fort Sumter to Bull Run, this is the no-nonsense breakdown of how fast everything ...