The Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home is recognizing National Medal of Honor Day. The volunteer resources coordinator, ...

Many Americans are proud of their ancestry, most being able to trace family trees back to a certain country, a certain event, ...

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The roughly 6,000-acre Gettysburg National Military Park surrounds the downtown and is a must for history buffs, especially those with an interest in the Civil War. It was here that Confederate ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The Sheldon Prairie Museum has many different collections -- in fact, about half the basement is dedicated to military ...

The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War began. William Boyd was born in Ghana in 1952 and moved to Nigeria with ...

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...

Organizers were not given a specific reason for the relocation but expressed gratitude towards the park staff for their continued support. The event, which features volunteer buglers playing Taps ...

The Civil War began in April 1861 when Fort Sumter (in the harbor of Charleston, S.C.) was attacked by local rebels. Even with all the rhetoric for years, the United States was caught off guard. What ...

By Ross Hetrick The Thaddeus Stevens Museum is expanding into the storefront next door at 52 Chambersburg Street and the ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...