U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

Lee surrendered to the Union Army at a courthouse in Virginia, an unusual spectacle took place in a committee room inside the Texas Capitol ... change its name to “Civil War Remembrance Day ...

When Harrison Ruffin Tyler's grandfather was born 235 years ago in 1790, George Washington had just become the nation's first ...

In the U.S., the re-enactment of historical battles has long been a niche hobby. But fake battles that echo an ongoing war ...

Church bells in Tallahassee area will ring for 2 minutes to announce the dawning of the special day of freedom.

An important day in Florida’s history is May 20, 1865, 11 days after the Civil War ended. General Edward McCook read the ...

Renowned TAMIU historian Jerry Thompson explored Juan Nepomuceno Cortina and Jose de los Santos Benavides for the Laredo ...

A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar’s military has been shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group near his ...

The story of Holt Collier, the bear guide for President Theodore Roosevelt on his famous 1902 Mississippi hunt.

Lightning lined the clouds as a young high school student from northern Oklahoma assembled his gear for a 40-hour pellet-gun battle. Mason Lowery, 17, plans to join the U.S. Army after graduation, but ...

Sam Houston spoke fluent Cherokee and English, elevating him to the role of liaison between the Cherokees and the United States. At the “Lunch and Learn” May 20, Jay Hannah, historian and Cherokee ...

On Thursday, the Department of Defense announced that a second section in Texas will be marked as a military installation ... The federal law was enacted in 1878 following the Civil War, when former ...