Los Angeles residents and experts say that the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests ...

As Tennessee’s oldest town, Jonesborough wears its history like a comfortable heirloom quilt—valued not for perfection but for the stories woven into every patch and stitch. Founded in 1779 when ...

For those seeking outdoor adventures, Jonesborough’s location provides easy access to the natural splendor of Northeast ...

A study has found that land owned by the city of Richmond, Virginia, possibly contains more than 700 unmarked graves. Some of ...

As wildfires rage in Canada, smoke is drifting into the U.S., and some of it may end up in the D.C. Metro area as early as ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students and professors at the University of Tennessee uncovered remnants of a Civil War trench in the heart of campus recently. State law requires excavation any time there ...

Tennessee. Private Wills served his country, though not in this century, or the last. He died in 1889. He was originally laid to rest in an unmarked grave, a Civil War veteran all but lost to history.

There has been much conjecture that we’re steamrolling toward a second civil ... or Tennessee. None of this happened overnight. Historians in the future will point to decades of election maps ...

44th Tennessee Infantry. Steve Madden of Redlands, a docent at Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine, in the background, will present “Shades of Gray: A Southern Perspective on the Civil War ...