There are a lot of ways that filmmakers and storytellers have reworked real history with an alternate version of that history over the years. Often it's a re-imagining of major events like wars, but ...

When the Navy ordered all alcohol off its ships in 1914, much of the fleet was in Mexico as part of the occupation of ...

A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...

1928—The Atlanta Daily World be­gins publication as the first Black dai­ly newspaper in modern times. It was founded by William A. Scott III. Amaz­ingly, the first Black daily newspaper in history—the ...

Wikimedia Commons/Taterian Belle Boyd, Civil War Spy Most teenage girls don’t shoot federal soldiers on the Fourth of July.

Last week was a bad week of social media posts from the Department of Homeland Security. Videos claiming a militarized Border Patrol is God’s will; memes about ICE funding assisting in mass ...

Wikimedia Commons/Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, National Park Service “The war began in my front yard and ...

Richmond locals have mastered the art of navigating their river city while dodging tourists in Confederate flag gear ask ...

Discover how Alexander Gilmer, an Irish immigrant, became a leading Texas lumber and shipping magnate after overcoming early ...

An Army post in Texas reverted to the name Fort Hood in a brief ceremony Monday morning, ending a two-year stint as Fort ...

Capt. Hugh P. Boon of Pennsylvania served in the U.S. Army from 1861 to 1865. His descendants recently gave his Medal of Honor to Bill Given.

Civil War soldier H.L. Thomas made it to within a few hours of his home in Galesburg, Ill., only to die near Lafayette.