The celebrated Underground Railroad conductor received posthumous recognition for her service as a spy, scout, nurse and cook ...
Local author Kevin Yaney led a free Civil War Veterans walking tour last Saturday morning at Crownland Cemetery in ...
More than 160 years after Harriet Tubman led Union troops on a raid on Combahee Ferry in South Carolina, freeing more than ...
The Droop Mountain Battlefield became the first West Virginia State Park and part of the Civil War Discovery Trail, now known ...
Buffalo Coat According to legend, this coat was made from the skin of a buffalo killed by Buffalo Bill, and presented by him ...
Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in American history. Born the second of nine children in straitened circumstances in New York in 1819, he left school at age 11 to help support his ...
The remains of 28 Civil War veterans and many of their wives are receiving burial services across the country. As first ...
Walter Tolbert’s keepsakes from the war came to the Danville Historical Society by chance. They’re some of the only items the ...
For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished in storage facilities ...
More than 130 years after his death, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War held their annual celebration of the birthday of Lowell native Union Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler. Butler was born in ...
The Pentagon believes the 10,000 North Korean soldiers sent to Russia are likely poised to fight against Ukraine in the coming weeks. This escalation shows “President Putin’s increasing ...