The Battle of Chickamauga was fought for three days in September of 1863 during the American Civil War. It was the Union’s most significant defeat in the Western Theater and the second battle with the ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to fight for the Union Army as the Civil War broke out between the ...

More than one American historian has described the Civil War as the conflict that turned brother against brother. Among the ...

The holiday was first observed by communities all over the U.S. following the Civil War, when the nation suffered more than ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members. But it’s come to anchor the unofficial ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, Starr King helped California raise $1.2 million, more than any state in the union, for the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a precursor to the American Red Cross ...

Broadnax III, who wrote the play with music and is directing its world premiere next week at Little Rock's Arkansas Repertory ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in four-part ...

Joan of Arc is more popular than Alexander Hamilton. Saint Francis of Assisi edges out Robert E. Lee. And there are 11 times more mermaids than congresswomen. These are some of the more surprising ...

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of ...

A special meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at First ...

On a cold, gray day in early January 1945, a train rolled out of Lima laden, like many trains in the three years previous and ...