When the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment formed in 1863, 82 recruits from County joined the nation's first all-Black ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Look past the Spanish Castillo fort and ornate Moorish buildings to discover the rich Black history of St. Augustine, Florida ...

From their first encounters with Europeans in 1642 to the Musket Wars in the first half of the 19th century, the Māori, the ...

Glenn Smeltzer stood with pride in Westmoreland County Courthouse Square on Saturday as he and his son watched a ceremony a ...

Although Memorial Day weekend is considered the start of summer, it does include a somber reflection of those who died in the ...

A British musket ball soon found his other leg ... The divisive issues in the buildup to the Civil War were debated. Education of children had taken place in church schools before 1834, but ...

A company that operates parking lots in our region has settled with the state of Vermont over issuing phony parking citations. A political consultant who sent voters artificial intelligence ...

Vermont’s Statehouse is known as a living museum, filled with historic and storied pieces of art. That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran ...

Meigs, future Quartermaster General for the Union Army during the Civil ... rifled muskets instead of smoothbore flintlock muskets the Army had been using since the Revolutionary War in different ...

Syria’s civil war had supposedly ended three months earlier ... checkpoints manned by Kurdish fighters wielding automatic rifles. For the Kurds, the bloodshed in Latakia only emphasizes why ...