John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did ...

All these outmoded items and a few others, viewed as key components of a soldier’s haversack, are part of an often under appreciated side of the Civil War: the civilian-driven supply chain.

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

This house was used in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps ... for intelligence during World War II. At that time it was known as “P.O. Box 1142,” and in 1980, Fort Hunt Park was ...

There’s some evidence that the migration fueled the civil war there, in which 80,000 people have died. “You had a lot of angry, unemployed men helping to trigger a revolution,” says Aaron ...