The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

U.S. states seem to mark Presidents Day with as many different names and honors as there have been presidents.

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series with a new focus on the American Civil War. This ...

Kansas and Missouri put a stop to this kind of back-and-forth business poaching more than five years ago when officials in both states agreed to a ceasefire in the so-called economic border war.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after those nations backed autocratic President ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...