The National Park Service has added seven locations around the U.S. to a nexus of museums and historical sites that help tell ...

The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in ...

"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question ... starting almost immediately after the war ended. The United Daughters of the Confederacy published textbook ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack ... Lincoln's chance came after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. He issued the preliminary Emancipation ...

"I think northern whites had the very real problems of governance after the Civil War," Blum explained ... no longer affirming life — it will use the same maladaptive manipulations that ...

On July 22, after Ohio state Sen ... Sprunger helped me find several local accounts of Gilluly’s life and his Civil War service. Numerous accounts confirmed that Gilluly worked as a teacher ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in 1854, newly established states could use ...

After a cemetery is selected and the Historical Society secures permission from the local township, six Civil War veterans are chosen ... their characters to life, sharing glimpses into the ...

The Fort Scott community got to explore the 1800s this weekend. Today was day two of the annual “Spring Civil War Encampment” at the Fort Scott National Historic Site. The public was invited ...

Bill Pool enlisted in the Army in 1941 and, after ... war was over,” Bill recalls Like so many families across the Ozarks, Bill’s family was in the military. Bill’s father served in the ...