In the final days of 1863, as the Civil War entered its third grueling year, the once-quiet waters of Matagorda Bay became ...

Trace the real causes of the American Civil War in this first part of a detailed historical series, covering the key events ...

Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for June 6, and notable births and deaths of native ...

Arkansas communities are celebrating Juneteenth this year with festivals, marches, cookouts, cultural discussions, and more.

It’s that spirit Bill carried with him, even while fighting in the Battle of the Bulge ... s Den State Park in Arkansas. Bill’s mom, Clara, was the last Civil War widow in the state of ...

Tom Wing, a University of Arkansas - Fort Smith historian and Civil War reenactor, has portrayed both the Confederate and Union sides in blue and in gray at past Cabin Creek battle reenactments. There ...

The Battle of Pea Ridge was fought in Northwest ... is now a U.S. National Park and is one of the most intact Civil War battlefields in the country.It's also an area popular with ghost hunters.The ...

Although not required to do so under the treaty reached by the tribes and the Confederate States, many Indian soldiers voluntarily fought at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas. The Civil War ...

The battle raged for more than three hours ... As demonstrated by professor Tom Wing of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, a good soldier could load and fire a Civil War rifle three to five ...

A secret hides behind the swollen walls of a peculiar farmhouse in southeast Arkansas, and a climb into the attic is a trip through time to a trapped moment just after the Civil War. Rows of ...

Their lives were defined like many men of that generation by the Civil War and Reconstruction. These two Pennsylvania brothers would play leading roles in the aftermath of the war in Arkansas.

For more than two decades, Arkansas mostly abandoned teaching ... “We’ve had programs about the Civil War. Usually, we have battles, even though no battle was fought here.