The proposed memorial highway would run through tribal lands in Leelanau County, where descendants of Company K soldiers ...

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865 ...

Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.

The museum presents a real-life look at life during the Civil War from the battlefield to the home front and even during the ...

Civil War veterans from Edwardsville Post 461 gathered for a historic 1912 portrait on the library steps.

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

A member of the Red Cliff tribe walked from Red Cliff to St. Paul and then to Saginaw, Michigan, to join the U.S. Civil War.

When Pulaski’s Edwin Ayers joined the Union Army during the Civil War, an officer made the 16-year-old a drummer boy because ...

From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, history’s first American pope recalled that he was an Augustinian priest, but a Christian above all, and a bishop, “so we can all walk together.” ...

But it makes me angry and in a state of disbelief that others can have so much ignorance of the blatant disregard for civil rights ... stay with us as her husband is alone overseas waiting for his ...