Bob Duncan hands a weathered three-foot sword to Tennessee archivist Wayne Moore. Moore handles the weapon with white cotton gloves. "What information do you have about it, Bob?" Moore asks. "It was ...

“A Contemporary Narrative: Impressions of Civil War Memorabilia from the Attleboro Arts Museum’s Permanent Collection” will run Feb.15-29 at the downtown museum. The museum annually mounts an ...

In this video, I traveled to South Carolina for a metal detecting adventure with friends Harley, Adam, and Johnny. We explored the woods, discovering a variety of treasures, including old coins and ...

Since 2006, one of the country’s largest public exhibits of Civil War memorabilia found its home in a faux southern manor in White Settlement, a few hundred feet off Loop 820. Collin Jefferson stood ...

This month, Today’s Collectibles readers submitted a colorful print commemorating a Civil War veteran’s service, a late 19th-century etching in its original frame, a late Victorian washstand with the ...

Don Troiani is a painter of carefully researched American military scenes who also collects historical artifacts. “If you’re a collector,” he told me recently, “you have to be fully prepared for your ...

“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee supposedly uttered the famous quote as he watched waves of Union troops get repeatedly smashed by ...

We set out to find a few relics maybe a bullet or a button. Instead, we uncovered what appears to be a genuine Civil War fire ...

America's Civil War holds a fascination and interest for Americans like no other. Reasons vary for this phenomenon. First, it was fought in our backyards and city streets. Secondly, its results ...

This season of "Chesapeake Collectibles" includes a rare first-run Barbie doll, manufactured in 1959 complete with its box. (Courtesy Maryland Public Television) It was a fixture of Maryland Public ...

Jan. 29—Mike Kent, promoter of the annual Chickamauga Civil War Show, said he is "eager and excited" to return to the Dalton Convention Center on Saturday and Sunday. "When it comes to vendors, we are ...