There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

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

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

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It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

Retired 1st Sgt. Mark Matthews was a soldier who saw the U.S. Army evolve from horse-mounted cavalry to diesel-driven, ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

On Feb. 6, 1899, Congress approved the Treaty of Paris, which also ceded the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam to the U.S.

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

While metal detecting near the Battle of Port Hudson, we began uncovering Civil War artifacts that now lead us to believe we have found the final moments of a Civil War Cavalry Officer's final moments ...