A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...

The town wears its history like a comfortable old sweater—proud but not pretentious, elegant but lived-in. Founded in 1716, ...

When the azaleas burst into bloom and the Mississippi air turns sweet with magnolia, this river town transforms into the ...

Visitors to Acworth's historic Lemon House on Saturday were transported back to the Civil War era during the Save Acworth History Foundation's "Gen. Sherman Returns to Acworth" commemoration ...

Armored men and women representing Texas and Oklahoma gather in Mississippi each year to take on similar fighters ...

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its ...

Records show city officials in 2023 spent $16,000 to upgrade a Confederate marker, located on Wise Street in Manchester, that ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...

Damage is reported in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city (which lies 600km away from the epicentre) and in Naypyidaw, the country ...