age 25), Joseph (store clerk, age 22), and Sarah (music teacher, age 19). The Van Lears included John Van Lear, 36, and his wife, Mary, 26. John had served as an Army Captain during the Civil War.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to ... the economy and large swaths of the nation's ...

While Camp Reynolds was never needed during the Civil War — it later became an infantry camp — several of the original buildings, including the Bake House and a Victorian-era officer’s home ...

That includes the iconic “Battle of Cedar Creek,” painted by Vermonter and Civil War veteran Julian Scott ... Vermont Country Store owner and art collector Lyman Orton is reportedly making ...

Since Pleasant Level is a Civil War-era farmhouse rich with history, Rowell thought it would be fun to explore that history a bit in the film’s story. To him, it wasn’t just about simply needing a ...

It also served as a headquarters for Union soldiers during the Civil War and became a field hospital. Lee and Brittani Lusk bought the house for $1. But there was a twist: the new owner would have ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War. In addition to ...

Paresh Patel, 30, working as a clerk in a convenience store, was shot multiple times at point-blank range in an armed robbery at the Marathon gas station in Tennessee on Tuesday. Within hours of ...

War is boring as hell in “The Damned,” an austere western drama set far from the battlefields on the 1862 frontier. It seeks not to tell a story but to capture a set of feelings. None of them ...

An online war of words between different factions of the MAGA movement broke out after Fox News’ Mark Levin essentially branded Trump Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff a traitor in a Friday social ...

After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi ...