Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

many of them previous to their organization having served with the Fifth regiment New-York National Guard during their first three months' campaign at the beginning of the war. It was raised under ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...

The once-independent agency has been forced to embrace a change of mission—serve the president’s exclusive interests, and ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Dhillon, a conservative lawyer from California, to run the Civil Rights Division, one of the most important, and politically polarizing, units in the ... borne by New York City, unilaterally ...

The World Monuments Fund has chosen the Zaragoza town among 25 worldwide locations for which it will raise funds. The 1937 ...

Genealogist Neicy DeShields-Moulton, who traces her roots in the United States back 200 years, spoke about members of her ...