Relic hunters scouring a farm field south of Fredericksburg, Virginia, were turning up the usual Civil War artifacts when ...

More than 161 years after hijacking a Confederate ship for a historic joyride to freedom, a Civil War hero is being honored ...

A pivotal change occurred in 1971 when Congress moved Memorial Day from a fixed May 30 to the last Monday of May, creating a ...

By the side of the road in a small town in Southern Maryland is an easy-to-miss historical marker. But the story of Camp Stanton is not to be missed.

At the cusp of the Civil War in 1860, Porter County had only 10,313 residents but participated in a large way, sending 1,200 ...

A new creek looked almost empty at first, with only horseshoes, axe heads, and scraps coming out of the ground. Then he finds ...

The Ethiopian Civil War became one of the Cold War’s most devastating proxy conflicts as Soviet support, communist revolution ...

Reenactors and presenters brought visitors back to the early 1860s for Century Village Museum’s 41st annual Civil War Living History Weekend. Union and Confederate soldiers encamped and mingled with ...

Every Memorial Day, millions of Americans pause to remember those who gave their lives in service. This year, we’re honoring ...

In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had ...

Maung Nu Sein needs fuel to plough and fertilizer to nourish his rice as planting season approaches. But the ships carrying ...