Mckee, who lives in Beacon, examines the life of “one of the weirder characters in American subcultural history.” Barker was ...

A historian raises concerns as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville moves ...

PITTSBURGH–As the Civil War was raging, thousands of American readers would wait to get news on the conflict every seven days from Harper’s Weekly, then the most widely-read periodical in the United ...

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The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

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For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

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For more than a century, Fort Benning's name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the ...

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, and Zachary Taylor all owned slaves. Plus, ...

Congress had pushed past President Trump’s veto to rename Fort Bragg, named for a Confederate general, in the final days of ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.