There are, off the more well-trod roads in the National Park System, lesser-known parks that nevertheless offer some ...

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Concerns that erosion where the Appomattax and James rivers meet in Virginia will erase archaeological, architectural, ...

Our recommendations for summer reading in 2025, featuring many books from Wisconsin writers, and including selections for ...

Drew Gruber, former executive director of history marking nonprofit for the past decade, announces on “Emerging Civil War” he will be inaugural manager of park dedicated last June.

Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial tells the painful stories of the forced incarceration of Japanese ...

The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865.

Beneath the flap of canvas tents and the slow crackle of smoldering campfires, Civil War history came to life last weekend ...

Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War worked together to research information on 15 veterans so their graves would no longer be unmarked. Groups like Sons of Union Veterans of the ...

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IN DES MOINES. GLENDALE CEMETERY. THE REMAINS OF 15 UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS RESTED IN UNMARKED GRAVES, UNMARKED UNTIL TODAY. KCCI’S KAYLA JAMES SHARES THE EFFORTS TO ...

Curt Fields is the preeminent U.S. Grant historian and reenactor. The Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley is excited to present Field’s first-person portrayal of Lieutenant General Ulysses S.

In the beginning of the American Civil War, no one expected the fighting to go on for very long. Not wanting to miss out on any of the action, a crowd of spectators gathered a couple of miles from the ...