One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Decades after their deaths, John Fraser Shecut and his wife, Tommie E. Durdin Grady Shecut, were buried at Sumterville Cemetery ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

A U.S. Army base originally named after a Confederate general, then renamed Fort Liberty, will revert to the name Fort Bragg. Its new namesake is WWII hero Roland Bragg — unbeknownst to his family.

On his first day in the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth referred to Georgia's Fort Moore by its original name, Fort ...

The Pentagon announced it is again changing the name of one of its largest military bases, Fort Liberty, back to its original name, Fort Bragg, but with a twist.

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Feb. 10 signed a memo that says Fort Liberty will become Fort Bragg again, but this time it won’t be to honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the ...

Calvin C. Bliss was one of the thousands of Arkansans caught in the chaos of the Civil War and Reconstruction, but he came to Arkansas as an educator and became the state’s first lieutenant governor.

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